There's quite a few of ya now...

Hello everyone...there's quite a handful of ya now, not many, but enough to have a party!
If you wanna just jot me a line saying "Hi", and where you're from, that'll be great...http://www.djc.yolasite.com/contact-dani-j-caile.ph.Ask me a question, that'll make a change, maybe even INTERVIEW me...
Going to put the first 5000 words of the 3rd book on jottify soon, I seem to have a few more nice comments there ATM...http://jottify.com/writer/cailed/. There's also a nice 18th/19th century Gothic short story there, check it out! http://jottify.com/works/the-prophecy-18th-century-gothic/

New version / old version

Had a quick look at 'Man by a tree', in terms of making the beginning more 'Da Vinci'-reader-friendly. Yes, I could do it...do I want to? In my mind, the book 'is' the book, other than the 0.2% amount of typos left in the book (I'm sure there are still some). But I'll have a go, call it 'Man by tree - revisited'.
The 3rd book...new facts keep coming to incorporate into the plot, it's hard to keep up with it all...:-)

New version??

I finally got a comment about 'Man by a tree' which wasn't really to my liking, saying the beginning wasn't structured well, and too many heads are used. But that's the point of the book, really. The 2nd book is a 'wham bamm, thank you, ma'am', whereas the 1st is a book you have to delve into first, walking through the forest which is life until something 'cracks'. Yes, this isn't reader-friendly, but I wanted to write books which made  people think. Apparently that's not so good, to make your readers think.
Perhaps I'll make a 'Man by a tree' - the 'Wham Bamm' version...just a bit of cutting and reshuffling....:-)

Money maker

Writing is a money maker? Well, no. Unless a writer gets a publisher and is marketed strongly, very strongly, then, no, there's no money in writing. Only pleasure :-) In my writing I've made 1/200th of my normal salary. I won't give up my day job - or my night job :-)

3rd book...different

This 3rd book is different. Of course, there's the usual feeling of humour throughout, but there's so much more. Based on facts from 3 political powers, including a dolphin as the main character, it's going to be...different, I guess, with the absurd and WTF attitude running throughout. Just had to do a massive rewrite through the book so far, and I'm only up to 4,500 words! I have no idea what kind of monster it will be when it 'grows up'. I know where it's going, but the way will be tricky and hard to keep on the straight and narrow. I don't know about anyone else, but I'll be happy if I can get it all down without going nuts!

What have you got to do?

I've written 2 books. Writing a 3rd. They say something about our time. Some people have read them. All who've read them say they're great.
BUT...Editors,agents and online magazines ignore them. Does anyone have a contact? Anywhere?
I gave an acquaintance permission to translate the first few parts of both books, and now 'they', as it turned into a team, want to do the whole translation...for a price, of course. This is correct, but I have no money.
I am not a publisher, I write as a hobby, as a way of stress-release and to stop me going crazy in this...world, and self-published my books for those who wish to read something other than Brown, Grisham, etc,etc. What do I say? I'd love my books to be translated into the language of my host country, I'm sure I could market them better here in Hungary than sitting at my computer trying to tell the world!

From a seed...

Have a 'seed' of an idea, think about it, grow the main 'trunk', then while 'being inspired' or 'doing nothing' or doing not-doing', find a 'branch', maybe some 'leaves', and write them down. Pretty soon you have a 'tree', which you put in a cover and show to the world. "Look at this tree, ain't it nice."
Only time is against me. Oh, and little flying hobgoblins...don't you see them?