Ask the Author: Kevin Tinto
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Kevin Tinto
Hi Mike!
Writing Genesis as we speak. I'm working toward late March, 2017.
Kevin
Writing Genesis as we speak. I'm working toward late March, 2017.
Kevin
Kevin Tinto
Hi Lynn!
Yes. First quarter 2017. Late Feb. Once ICE became a phenom, I decided I had to write both GENESIS and ICE REVELATION at the same time, so keep the story working. ICE REVELATION should follow mid summer!
KT
Yes. First quarter 2017. Late Feb. Once ICE became a phenom, I decided I had to write both GENESIS and ICE REVELATION at the same time, so keep the story working. ICE REVELATION should follow mid summer!
KT
Kevin Tinto
Hi Kate!
Did you read the 2nd Edition with two chapters of ICE GENESIS at the end?
Kevin
Did you read the 2nd Edition with two chapters of ICE GENESIS at the end?
Kevin
Kevin Tinto
Hi Zara! I'm writing IG as we speak. Looking for mid fall right now. I'm loading the first two chapters of ICE GENESIS onto the website at http://www.writingthrillers.com this morning. Should be good to go later on today.
KT
KT
Kevin Tinto
Hi Zara! I'm working on IG as we speak. Still working toward end of September!
KT
KT
Kevin Tinto
I have no idea....
Kevin Tinto
Whip up some AC/DC on the bluetooth wireless earbuds, and let it rip.
Kevin Tinto
Writing the sequel to ICE, ICE GENESIS.
Kevin Tinto
Get off your ass and write everyday. Do not write three chapters, and keep going back and revising it until the sun goes super nova. Don't waste your time chasing agents, publishers, etc. If you've got something good, you'll make a mint on it via Amazon, Kindle Unlimited...and sure enough, they'll be on their knees after you've sold a 100,000 Kindle copies online. At that point, you might offer them paper rights only. Never the electronic!
Use Fivver.com! For God's Sakes Man! The cover for ICE was done for $5.00 on Fivver.
Use Fivver.com! For God's Sakes Man! The cover for ICE was done for $5.00 on Fivver.
Kevin Tinto
I get to blow the readers mind with a wicked scene, flying at 600 knots low level across the surface of the southern ocean, and get it so right, the reader is white-knuckled holding onto the book, Kindle, iPad.
I know I've got it right when I have my editor chasing his own tail after I faked left and went right, down, up, sideways. When you can surprise a professional fiction editor, you know you're gonna blow the reader right off the couch. Gotta love that.
I know I've got it right when I have my editor chasing his own tail after I faked left and went right, down, up, sideways. When you can surprise a professional fiction editor, you know you're gonna blow the reader right off the couch. Gotta love that.
Kevin Tinto
Write through it. If I'm stumped on a chapter, scene or other, I just pass right over it. Sometimes writing the last chapter first is the best idea. Then you always have north on your compass, when writing a manuscript. A first draft for me might be a lot of disjointed chapters, notes, a set of XXXXXX which means, I'm clueless on the low level flight characteristics of a B-2 Spirit, Stealth Bomber. Do the research and go back to it.
The idea you're gonna do an outline and then write 5 pages a day of finished manuscript is something only Dean Koontz can do.
It might be a third, fourth, or fifth draft before you're ready to show it to your pro editor. That may involve a number of rewrites. Then send it to beta readers. After all, you are the writer. Don't get caught up chasing beta contrails across the sky.
The idea you're gonna do an outline and then write 5 pages a day of finished manuscript is something only Dean Koontz can do.
It might be a third, fourth, or fifth draft before you're ready to show it to your pro editor. That may involve a number of rewrites. Then send it to beta readers. After all, you are the writer. Don't get caught up chasing beta contrails across the sky.
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