# So, I am now a published author... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775 "2013-05-20T00:33:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775/21 "2013-05-22T01:14:27Z")
**Kaio** : Well, what’s the worst that can happen, eh? (Aiee!) Just bought it, and will try to bubble it up closer to the top of my reading stack! ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775/22 "2013-05-22T03:50:46Z")
Cool, thank you! I hope you like it, in that dreadful uneasy way. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![thenonepercent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@thenonepercent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thenonepercent)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775/23 "2013-05-23T02:03:12Z")
I read it and can recommend it to anyone in need of a good mind-fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775/24 "2013-05-24T00:57:51Z")
Uh-oh: now I’m worried again… I don’t like mind-fucks… I’ll read it in broad daylight, with other people in the house, with the windows open, and Vivaldi in the background. Can’t get scared with Vivaldi going, right? And a cat on my chest. No, better, a doggie! ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775/25 "2013-05-24T01:39:09Z")
I have confidence in you **Trinopus**! You can do it! And really, there’s nothing better than a book, a blanket, and a cat, so by all means. The doggie can lie on your feet and growl at the monsters in the dark shadowy corners of the room. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![thenonepercent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@thenonepercent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thenonepercent)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775/26 "2013-05-24T03:36:52Z")
It’s not that kind of scary, Trinopus. Not rar boo scary. More of an “eternal bleakness of the clouded mind” sort of darkness. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775/27 "2013-05-24T23:22:04Z")
Read it! It’s a short novel, and I can see the “mind-fuck” aspects. It’s “classical horror” in that it uses certain classically familiar motifs. It’s a kind of “horror of manners,” in that it is mostly about the characters’ interacting. If I were to find any fault in it, it is that the antagonist didn’t really do a very good job of it. I don’t want to give anything away, but the bad guy seems to have missed several tricks. For a “smart villain” kind of guy, his approach seems to have been kinda dumb. (If he’d been totally honest and explained everything right from the get-go, things might have worked out differently! But villains never seem to do this!) The writing style was excellent: good, strong, clear narrative and comfortable, believable dialogue. Since those are the _hardest_ things to do in a story, you, as a writer, are on secure ground for the rest of your professional career! And I’ll go and say something nice on Amazon, too! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775/28 "2013-05-25T10:19:00Z")
Congratulations! Always great to see a local lad make good! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775/29 "2013-05-25T11:54:47Z")
Congrats! Next up on my kindle. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775/30 "2013-05-25T21:29:07Z")
**Trinopus** : Yay! I’m so glad you liked it. And thank you kindly for the reviews here and on Amazon. **kayaker** : Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775/31 "2013-05-28T18:02:04Z")
The layout for the paperback is in progress, so we Luddites can read it too. I should have a proof by next week. Yay! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-am-now-a-published-author/658775.md?page=1)