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Oct 11, 2022Liked by Erin Bowman

I can't wait to read it!

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Yay! Thank you! Iā€™m excited to start sharing. :)

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Sounds like Minority Report, but for all causes of death. My book, Fate, Inc. has a similar theme, only Death is handled in a way consistent with a call center in the telecommunications sector and is more humor/fantasy based.

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I love how writers can start with a similar premise and/or concept and come up with wildly different stories. Your take on predicting death sounds awesome.

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I like it as well. And your take sounds like a great one. I can already see interesting ideas surrounding it. Like for instance, what happens when the computer model predicts the death of someone and it doesn't come true, or a death happens before the date prescribed?

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Ding ding ding! That question is at the core of the novel's main conflict. :)

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Oct 12, 2022Liked by Erin Bowman

This is so exciting! I miss dystopians! Who decided it's a dead genre??

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I love dystopias too! I think theyā€™re evergreen as far as genres go. This project is more of a coming of age story with a subtle scifi twist than it is an epic dystopia, but there are a few dystopia elements in there. :)

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Yessss!!!! This is so exciting!!

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Thanks, friend!

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Oct 17, 2022Liked by Erin Bowman

So excited for this! I'm going the indie publishing route, so I get excited every time I see an author that's been traditionally published start to experiment with other avenues like this! And this premise! THIS. PREMISE. It sounds soooooo good!

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Thank you!! Trad publishing just keeps getting tougher, so it makes sense to experiment. I'm excited to see how it goes...

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Oct 13, 2022Liked by Erin Bowman

The premise sounds so good, I'm really excited to read it soon!

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Oh thank you! Iā€™m excited to share it. :)

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Interesting! I relate. I wrote an autobiographical YA novel in 2010 and spent eight years submitting it to agents in various forms. I was rejected unanimously for many years until I finally broke down and hired a former Random House freelance editor. She worked with me on the book for eight months and said it was solid. She said ā€˜were I still at RH Iā€™d acquire it.ā€™ After that I started getting agent interest. First a few agents wanted to read the whole MS, then dozens. One agent read it three times and sent me long emails praising it. Yet that agent disappeared suddenly without a trace. Another agent praised it as well and said she could ā€˜see it on the shelfā€™ but then quipped that the narrator being an ā€˜upperclass white maleā€™ was ā€˜problematicā€™ in the Time of Trump. So I stopped submitting it. More and more it seems agents want ideology versus literature. Itā€™s sad. I interned for an agent for nine months in 2013; I learned a lot about the industry. Many of my book editing clients are published with major houses. But in the end I chose to do things my way and join Substack. And now Iā€™m serializing my ā€˜fictional memoirā€™ about living in East Harlem NYC during Covid. Maybe next Iā€™ll do the YA!

Anyway: I subscribed to your SS because you have trad pub experience and also turned to SS: I find that intriguing. For so long I wanted to be traditionally published. But now? Iā€™m much more interested in forming a direct relationship with readers. The gatekeepers are so often wrong.

Keep up the good writing! Look forward to more.

Michael Mohr

Sincere American Writing

https://michaelmohr.substack.com/

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Iā€™m so excited to read this!

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Yay! I'm excited to share. :)

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