Mercenary Savior 4.0 is FINISHED!

…and not a moment too soon.  I leave for the Salt Lake airport in eight hours, to try and sell this ugly beast masterpiece at World Fantasy.  Let’s hope I can find a few editors/agents who are willing to take a look at the manuscript!

Here are the stats:

Mercenary Savior 4.0

words: 123,045
pages: 620
chapters: 28 + prologue
file size: 288.1 KB
start date: 24 August 2010
end date: 27 October 2010

And the wordsplash:

Wordle: Mercenary Savior 4.0

The most influential song on my writing for this draft would probably be the theme from Terminator 1:

Man, why didn’t I grow up in the Eighties? Oh, wait…

I’d write more, but I have to pack for tomorrow. Good night!

By Joe Vasicek

Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He claims Utah as his home.

3 comments

  1. Hmmm… I don’t want to be a downer… but are you planning on actually accosting people with your manuscript? Because everything I’ve ever read/listened to has said that’s a no-no. I hear the way to go is buddy-buddy, then “hey-can-I-send-you-a-query/partial/mani” etc.

    Good luck, though. In truth, this is just the outpouring of my envy that 1) you are going to World Fantasy, 2) with a completed manuscript.

    -bn

  2. Haha, no, I’m not going to accost people with my actual, physical manuscript. When I say “sell,” I mean the second part of what you said: network with agents/editors and ask if I could send them my ms after the convention.

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