It’s the end of the world…MERRY CHRISTMAS!
This is a book with an interesting history.
I sent it to a company in Hollywood that dealt in books and screenplays. I knew it was perfect for a screenplay.
A couple of weeks later, I had forgotten about it, I was busy writing something else, and I received a phone call.
“Mr. Case, we love your book. A reader passed it around to the other readers, and one of them gave it to me, and the editor loved it…we’re going to send it up to the boss and I’m pretty sure you’ll be hearing from us within a week.”
Zowie! I had made it! I had almost sold Monkeyland, but it had fallen through, but now this…White Dove was going to sell! Book deals Movie deals! I wouldn’t have to work and I could spend all day just writing!
A week passed with no word.
A second week, and I called the person who had contacted me.
“The boss didn’t like it. Sorry, Mr. Case.”
What?
And it made me think: why did the boss have readers and editors and such if he wasn’t going to listen to them?
But that’s the publishing biz. You have to hope the reader woke up feeling good, and then the editor woke up feeling good, and then the boss woke up feeling good.
If one of those people have a bad hair day, it’s no sale.
And the matter is complicated when you have a half a dozen people who have been educated (instilled with filters) in different ways.
I forget who said it, but they were right: If the publishing business is a jungle, the movie business is a jungle on another planet!
ABOUT THE BOOK
I wrote the book with Charles Dickens in mind. I always liked Charles Dickens, and the one book he had that sold better than all the others was A Christmas Carol. Heck, it receives fresh advertising and interest every Christmas. There are over 200 adaptation for stage, movies, etc.
Okay, I wanted something that would sell every Christmas year after year forever. Right?
That meant I had to do Chuck Dickens one better. Instead of one guy and three ghosts, I made everybody ghosts, and how the heck does a ghost save the world?
I had a ball with this book. I had mechanical monsters and werewolves and a really mean, old lady. How could I go wrong?
I had corrupt cops, whoores and juvenile delinquents.
I even had black, blues singing crooks, evil doctors, and rotten lawyers!
Try saving the world with that!
Anyway, click on the link right below. Guaranteed, you can’t go wrong!
WHEN THE WHITE DOVE SPEAKS
(Coming soon)