{"id":13299,"date":"2021-07-26T20:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T03:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=13299"},"modified":"2021-07-27T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T00:32:19","slug":"self-pub-juicy-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/26\/self-pub-juicy-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Pub My JUICY GHOSTS Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished my Juicy Ghosts <\/em>novel that I\u2019ve been posting about <\/a>for the last two years. My agent and I sent the Juicy Ghosts <\/em>manuscript to three smallish publishers who are that crucial notch above being \u201csmall presses.\u201d\u009d. The first two never answered. And the third said no, he thought the political assassination stuff was too much. The removal of the fictional President Ross Treadle, that is.<\/p>\n

[Surrealism alert: many of my blog illos have little or no logical connection with the adjacent text. The paintings of mine that appear are for sale on my Paintings <\/a>page]<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n 210. \u201cAlthea’s Friends”\u201d\u009d Acrilyc on canvas. Painted with Althea Lasseter, July, 2021, 30\u201d\u009d x 24\u201d\u009d. <\/em><\/p>\n

That Treadle part was the first bit I wrote, early in 2019 and I put it in a (I then thought) standalone short story called \u201cJuicy Ghost\u201d\u009d that no zine would publish so in June, 2019, I put it put it on my blog<\/a>, and that October the cool underground SF ezine Big Echo <\/a><\/em> published it too. And then I was paranoid that \u201cthey\u201d\u009d would come \u201cget\u201d\u009d me, but they never did\u2014or they haven\u2019t yet. So here I am, still squawking.<\/p>\n

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I explain about the book in this pitch video below, not that you have to listen to it right now. Scrolling down through this post might be more fun.<\/p>\n