Tag: Surfing
Book Covers
Choosing the right photo for the book cover is much harder than I anticipated. This will be people’s first impression of my work. As a debut novel, I feel as if I can’t make any mistakes. This is what will start building my readership. Before, writing was purely a selfish act. Now, as a soon to be published writer, it is no longer about what … Continue reading Book Covers
I’ve done it!!!
Ray knew what he was talking about. After only 76 rejections, I got the yes. I signed the publishing agreement on Friday. July 2017, Waldorf Publishing, out of Grapevine Texas, will be publishing my debut novel, Native Moments, a literary surf adventure set in Costa Rica. Should be meeting with a cover designer this week. Will chronicle my progress via this blog. But I … Continue reading I’ve done it!!!
Native Moments, a novel
I haven’t written much about my novel except about queries and rejections. It’s a surf/travel adventure. I’m doing something different with this story though. It isn’t Point Break or North Shore. In fact, the only thing similar to those movies is that there is surfing in Native Moments. It seems as surfing stories very rarely get taken serious. I’m hoping to change that. This is the … Continue reading Native Moments, a novel
Another epigraph I’m thinking of using for my upcoming novel, Native Moments.
The Songlines is one of my all time favorite books and so is Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I like how this quote, although written well before The Road, encompasses the ideas McCarthy so often times plays with. Native Moments also discusses these ideas of hierarchies and dominance and anarchism. “As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less ‘aggressive’ than sedentary ones. There is one obvious … Continue reading Another epigraph I’m thinking of using for my upcoming novel, Native Moments.
Epigraph from my upcoming novel, Native Moments
“Native moments – when you come upon me – ah you are here now, Give now libidinous joys only, Give me the drench of my passions, give me life coarse and rank, Today I go consort with Nature’s darlings, to-night too, I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink … Continue reading Epigraph from my upcoming novel, Native Moments
Nic Schuck 