About five or six years ago, I started writing a novel for kids. (I think the industry calls them “young adults,” although I personally prefer “halflings” or “Hey, you, get off of my lawn!”) It’s about a kid who wins $100,000,000 in the lottery but can’t tell anyone. II finished it a few months ago and have shown it to a couple of publishers and a couple of agents, each of whom has wildly praised it as (if I may quote) “Not right for us.”

So, here’s my plan.

I’m going to post an html version of it on the Web for free, and sell a softcover version of it through Lulu.com. Sound like a good plan?

Before I put it up for general release, though, I’d love to have someone take an editing pass at it. I’m most interested in copy editing (= nit picking) at this point, primarily because it wouldn’t be fun to do a major rewrite. (Maybe I’ll post the whole thing on a wiki once I go live with it so that the wisdom of the crowds can do the next round of drafts.)

So, if you’d like to comment on it, let me know (self evident.com) and I’ll send you the current version in Word format. (It’s 63,000 words, which formats to a 220pp 6×9″ Lulu book.)

Also, I’d like to set up a discussion forum for readers once I post the book on its web site. Any suggestions for an easy way to do that? [Tags: my100milliondollarsecret books bad_writing]

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