{"id":1850,"date":"2015-03-27T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2015-03-27T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T16:36:20","slug":"shelving-velvet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1850","title":{"rendered":"Shelving VELVET"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t admitted this officially before because I’m still raw about it, but here goes: the big book I’ve been working on these last four years? I’ve put it aside<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Last October, after we’d gamely knocked three drafts back and forth without agreeing what we wanted, my publisher cancelled my contract. My agent – before she quit the business – told me that she didn’t think she could sell the book to anyone else. Now my new agent<\/a> has gently but definitely confirmed to me that the book has fundamental problems and ‘needs a lot of work<\/strong>.’<\/p>\n

I can take a hint. ;p<\/p>\n

One problem with the book is that I’ve put so much time and love into it that now I’m too close to it to see or accept what I would have to do to take it further. So, until\/unless I get the distance and objectivity I need, I’m doing the next best thing I can<\/em> do: I’ve stopped working on it, and started writing other stuff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a brand new novella out under consideration, I’m working on another short project right now, and my next full-length book is already underway. Meanwhile, for the time being, I’m sad to say that all that anyone else will hear or see of my broken but beautiful, crazy-ambitious, utopian SF rock-and-roll epic<\/strong> is its title<\/strong> and this gorgeous cover<\/strong> by genius illustrator Barnaby Richards<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"VELVETbySamEnthovenCoverByBarnabyRichards\"<\/p>\n

To those brave, kind few who have read the book as it currently stands, my thanks.<\/p>\n

To VELVET, au revoir.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t admitted this officially before because I’m still raw about it, but here goes: the big book I’ve been working on these last four years? I’ve put it aside. Last October, after we’d gamely knocked three drafts back and forth without agreeing what we wanted, my publisher cancelled my contract. My agent – before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwaha-bwahahahaha","category-writing-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}