Elliott Turner's Blog - Posts Tagged "announcement"
Best of FF 2012: Now Out
The eBook moves along swimmingly, yet you desire some quality Turner goodness to hold you over until April. Luckily, a bite-sized morsel is on sale for a buck.
Yes, that's right: Best of Futfanatico 2012 has hit the Kindle eStore for one dollar. You can purchase it here. Why pay a buck?
Well, in five years time, when I am in another universe and cease to pay server fees, these pieces of soccer writing will disappear into a black hole. They will be reduced to a forgotten MYSQL request on a database in a computer that is on a raft in a river that ends at Niagara Falls. Enjoy the view while you can.
Also, this collection has some great stories. I believe that my extended English Premier League preview based on Finnegan's Wake makes more sense in eInk on a Kindle than the interwebs. No offense, interwebs. The soccer hipster post remains relevant, even though you totally heard about it after your friend but are too standoffish to admit it.
I also still love the fake Jurgen Habermas interview about Jose Mourinho. When I think of humanism, I don't think of Jose. Yet he can be so enlightening at his pressers that you just know he's read a bit of Hume to pass those long summer months.
In terms of the eBook, I'm waiting a week or so and then editing a fourth draft. I also have three different sets of eyes that will soon give me feedback. Also, the artist has tied the knot (congrats Erik!), and hopefully in a few weeks can get back on the saddle.
If not, backers can expect some wonderful prints of polar bears closing their eyes in a blizzard come May. (J/K....kinda).
Yes, that's right: Best of Futfanatico 2012 has hit the Kindle eStore for one dollar. You can purchase it here. Why pay a buck?
Well, in five years time, when I am in another universe and cease to pay server fees, these pieces of soccer writing will disappear into a black hole. They will be reduced to a forgotten MYSQL request on a database in a computer that is on a raft in a river that ends at Niagara Falls. Enjoy the view while you can.
Also, this collection has some great stories. I believe that my extended English Premier League preview based on Finnegan's Wake makes more sense in eInk on a Kindle than the interwebs. No offense, interwebs. The soccer hipster post remains relevant, even though you totally heard about it after your friend but are too standoffish to admit it.
I also still love the fake Jurgen Habermas interview about Jose Mourinho. When I think of humanism, I don't think of Jose. Yet he can be so enlightening at his pressers that you just know he's read a bit of Hume to pass those long summer months.
In terms of the eBook, I'm waiting a week or so and then editing a fourth draft. I also have three different sets of eyes that will soon give me feedback. Also, the artist has tied the knot (congrats Erik!), and hopefully in a few weeks can get back on the saddle.
If not, backers can expect some wonderful prints of polar bears closing their eyes in a blizzard come May. (J/K....kinda).
Article at The Blizzard
I penned a piece on Nicaraguan Football, FIFA's Goal Program, and some shady dealings in the construction of a national stadium. Check it out here. Sorry, "alleged" construction of a "stadium." Please don't sue me for defamation.
Book is on Sale!
Hey folks,
the book is on sale! Goodreads doesn't let you sell eBooks anymore, so you're options are:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Apple
Smashwords
It's been a blast keeping y'all in the loop on the "creation/publication" process. May you never read a post about a copy editor and manuscript review ever again.
-ET
the book is on sale! Goodreads doesn't let you sell eBooks anymore, so you're options are:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Apple
Smashwords
It's been a blast keeping y'all in the loop on the "creation/publication" process. May you never read a post about a copy editor and manuscript review ever again.
-ET
eBook Subscription Services
Hey everybody,
I'm happy to announce my soccer eBooks are now available at both Oyster and Scribd, the two major eBook subscription services. I actually use Scribd as a reader and it's quality.
You can get further details here.
I'm happy to announce my soccer eBooks are now available at both Oyster and Scribd, the two major eBook subscription services. I actually use Scribd as a reader and it's quality.
You can get further details here.
THE THIRD BOOK!!!
Readers, friends, fans, family members, and people who subscribed/read this blog by some accident of Google: I have written a new book. Well, a 74,000 word manuscript to be exact. Yes, it involves soccer. No, it is not non-fiction. Rather, it is fiction. Here's the plot:
A young man named Manny from South Texas dreams of becoming a pro soccer player, but there's one big problem: he's undocumented. Still, he's sick of living in the RGV, so he and his best friend Hector head North. Manny's quest takes them from San Antonio to San Francisco, but just as he's about to sign a pro contract, a tragedy strikes that derails his plans. Even worse, his friendship with Hector falls to pieces.
I won't be too spoiler-y here, but the book has plenty of bilingual humor and straddles that weird nether region between sports narrative/multicultural fiction/literary fiction. The first half of the book is neat and tidy omniscient narrator, but when Manny's life falls apart, things get messy. A first-person voice emerges from the ashes, and tears down everything you thought you knew. One of the key subnarratives is how the Hispanic/Mexican-American community has dealt with LGBTQ members and that relationship has evolved in some ways but not others. I also make quite a few inside jokes at lower tier soccer in the US (lovingly of course). If you have played PDL, USL Pro, or NPSL, you're in for a treat.
So, a release date? Yeah, about that. I have just started the literary agent query letter/sample shuffle. I decided to focus on agents who have worked for authors I love and adore, give them time to say "umm, no thanks", then regroup and send out more query letters/samples. If you have any tips or insight or leads, hit me up. You will be a legend, an angelic matchmaker with a direct pass through St. Peter's gates upon your exit from this life.
Some folks have asked: para que? Yes, I independently published and promoted my first two non-fiction books. However, I am trying out the traditional route because 1) Agents do lots of cool stuff for you besides finding a publisher - for example. they know all the best dive bars in Manhattan and Brooklyn, 2) I want a publisher to do my battles with Amazon, 3) Ebooks are easy, but making and pushing paperbacks is not so easy, and 4) If a publisher focuses on the format, cover, and promotion of my book, I get more time to write!
That being said, I am not waiting around forever. If, say, in one year I don't have serious progress on the traditional agent/publication front, you can rely on me to Kickstart and independently publish this mofo. There's this story that Paolo Coehlo tried for almost a decade to get his first novel published - folks take that as a moral of "persistence." I've always thought - what if a milk truck had run over poor Pablo after year five? Chingao.
I'd rather run to the indie press Sergio de la Pava/Lone Ranger style and would be happy to live the life of Billy Gaddis: unknown to 99%, absolutely loved by a few, and brilliantly misunderstood.
I wrote about four preliminary short stories to get the main characters and personality dynamics right for the novel, and they are in the incubator/possibly getting published at some rad literary mags and sites. The world of fiction moves about as fast as investigative reporting, so, yawwwwwwwn. As always, I will disappear for two years and then suddenly overwhelm you with content. Or keep you in the loop. I haven't decided yet.
A young man named Manny from South Texas dreams of becoming a pro soccer player, but there's one big problem: he's undocumented. Still, he's sick of living in the RGV, so he and his best friend Hector head North. Manny's quest takes them from San Antonio to San Francisco, but just as he's about to sign a pro contract, a tragedy strikes that derails his plans. Even worse, his friendship with Hector falls to pieces.
I won't be too spoiler-y here, but the book has plenty of bilingual humor and straddles that weird nether region between sports narrative/multicultural fiction/literary fiction. The first half of the book is neat and tidy omniscient narrator, but when Manny's life falls apart, things get messy. A first-person voice emerges from the ashes, and tears down everything you thought you knew. One of the key subnarratives is how the Hispanic/Mexican-American community has dealt with LGBTQ members and that relationship has evolved in some ways but not others. I also make quite a few inside jokes at lower tier soccer in the US (lovingly of course). If you have played PDL, USL Pro, or NPSL, you're in for a treat.
So, a release date? Yeah, about that. I have just started the literary agent query letter/sample shuffle. I decided to focus on agents who have worked for authors I love and adore, give them time to say "umm, no thanks", then regroup and send out more query letters/samples. If you have any tips or insight or leads, hit me up. You will be a legend, an angelic matchmaker with a direct pass through St. Peter's gates upon your exit from this life.
Some folks have asked: para que? Yes, I independently published and promoted my first two non-fiction books. However, I am trying out the traditional route because 1) Agents do lots of cool stuff for you besides finding a publisher - for example. they know all the best dive bars in Manhattan and Brooklyn, 2) I want a publisher to do my battles with Amazon, 3) Ebooks are easy, but making and pushing paperbacks is not so easy, and 4) If a publisher focuses on the format, cover, and promotion of my book, I get more time to write!
That being said, I am not waiting around forever. If, say, in one year I don't have serious progress on the traditional agent/publication front, you can rely on me to Kickstart and independently publish this mofo. There's this story that Paolo Coehlo tried for almost a decade to get his first novel published - folks take that as a moral of "persistence." I've always thought - what if a milk truck had run over poor Pablo after year five? Chingao.
I'd rather run to the indie press Sergio de la Pava/Lone Ranger style and would be happy to live the life of Billy Gaddis: unknown to 99%, absolutely loved by a few, and brilliantly misunderstood.
I wrote about four preliminary short stories to get the main characters and personality dynamics right for the novel, and they are in the incubator/possibly getting published at some rad literary mags and sites. The world of fiction moves about as fast as investigative reporting, so, yawwwwwwwn. As always, I will disappear for two years and then suddenly overwhelm you with content. Or keep you in the loop. I haven't decided yet.
Bookery - Crowdfunding/PreOrder
Webbie, with his "big brain", kinda stole my thunder but yes I am Kickstartering this project/novel. Basically, friends who are authors told me how to get an agent, and I would have to divorce my wife, disappear from my kids' lives, and schmooze at the happy hours after writer conferences weekend after weekend for a few years. I will do NONE of those things.
Instead, I will beg/plead/annoy/pester you, my friends (online counts!), for money.
Please note: you can get the novel in PDF format for only $12, which is/will be less than the retail eBook price if this happens. You also don't pay sales tax, and I get a bigger slice of the pie than when u buy something at Amazon or even iTunes.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
Instead, I will beg/plead/annoy/pester you, my friends (online counts!), for money.
Please note: you can get the novel in PDF format for only $12, which is/will be less than the retail eBook price if this happens. You also don't pay sales tax, and I get a bigger slice of the pie than when u buy something at Amazon or even iTunes.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
Getting down at the (Book) Club
Hey friends,
I am excited and honored that Las Comadres & Friends, the largest LatinX book club in the US, has selected my novel The Night of the Virgin, as one of their 13 summer reading books.
I've kept my lips sealed about the plot to not ruin anything with spoilers, but NOTV is listed under both "young adult" thanks to the bildungsroman aspect and also LGBTQ. Hint. Hint. Hint. SURREPTITIOUS WINK.
Really stoked to see my book on this list and thinking of fellow bookclubbers reading NOTV.
I am excited and honored that Las Comadres & Friends, the largest LatinX book club in the US, has selected my novel The Night of the Virgin, as one of their 13 summer reading books.
I've kept my lips sealed about the plot to not ruin anything with spoilers, but NOTV is listed under both "young adult" thanks to the bildungsroman aspect and also LGBTQ. Hint. Hint. Hint. SURREPTITIOUS WINK.
Really stoked to see my book on this list and thinking of fellow bookclubbers reading NOTV.
