Episode 6: The Dream of the Million Dollar Book Deal
Episode 6: The Dream of the Million Dollar Book Deal
The Publish and Die Protocol-Fiction Series
The phone rang on the desk, where Richard was working at his computer.
“Hello, Richard here.”
“Hi Richard, it’s me, Gary.”
“How are you doing Gary? Changed your mind?”
“Yes, in fact, I have. I met Jim the other day when I went for an auction in the city. We got chatting about the instant million dollar book generator which you and his sister are working on. He sold me the idea. You can sign me on.”
“Thanks, Gary, that’s wonderful news, welcome aboard.”
“Speak to you later Richard, just send over any documents which need to be signed.”
“Will do and thanks once again,” said Richard.
“You should thank Jim, he had a great pitch for the project,” said Gary.
I could not wait to tell Shelly the good news.
So, I picked up the mobile and rang her.
“You won’t believe what just happened,” said Richard excitedly.
“What is it,” said Shelly who was busy at work attending to customers in the computer store.
“Gary signed on to the project.”
“That’s great. I’ll call you later. I’m busy right now at the store.”
“Yes, we’ll speak later.”
I had formed a think-tank team online for the project over the last two months, managed by Regina the girl who was helping me with grandfather’s novel.
Feedback was so important, as were the trends in the publishing industry.
A new Author published and a successful author boosted every day on the bestseller list was the basis of the book project my team and I were tirelessly working on. I had a team working on the trends in the book industry. The typical niches which were enjoyed by readers were explored. It seemed that romance, thrillers, science fiction, and horror were high up on the bestseller lists. We were in the process of analyzing the metrics of a bestseller both fiction and non-fiction.
The Million-dollar book deal was the main focus of my team’s efforts under the able direction of my girlfriend Shelly. We were trying to combine all the facts that we had with us, of the likes of readers, the most popular book categories, the readership base, the age groups, and all other relevant factors like book covers, titles, and colors to make the process more manageable.
On the one hand, we had Devlin a great MIT computer programmer, and his geek squad of four friends who were developing a metric system to interpret all the data that we had collected on bestsellers over the last ten years.
One year later, Shelly and the team develop the fully automated Million Dollar Book Deal Generator.
Designing all the features of the generator together took time. We were creating a ready database of publishers. Our team arranged several meetings with Agents and Book Publishers who would accept the proposal.
The next important feature of the program was the Automatic Manuscript Diagnostic Feature.
The Instant Book Contract Offer was outlined and after several drafts, it was finally approved. We wanted the author of a piece of writing to have all the rights to his or her own intellectual property at all times.
A computer check of the manuscript was developed keeping in mind the subject the novel or book would cover and if it had a ready market.
This entailed the valuing of the Book Content and if found to be of the marketable standard expected, then Issuing the Book Contract was to be the next step.
The primary basis of the Million Dollar Book Deal was that “All writers and all Manuscripts are not made equal.” The essential ingredient for an author to qualify for the program was to have a manuscript that had a valuable concept which needed to be shared in a book. The writing style and level of writing skills were also evaluated by the computer program. It would not be possible for a two-year-old to write a bestseller, but it would be possible for anyone with some writing skill and creativity to become a bestselling author. Any writer with an idea he or she believed in and was passionate about could with the help of the million-dollar book deal generator be offered a million dollar contract by a publisher.
A ready-made production, Marketing, Advertising, and book distribution system was outlined, planned, developed by the team, thus making the whole process from start to finish completely automated.
The magic starts to happen, within forty-eight hours of the launch of the Million Dollar Book deal Generator software. Our servers nearly crash with the traffic to our websites. The software is going like hotcakes. The success stories start to come in, within two days. Authors are putting their old novels and manuscript typed notes on topics, into folders, with simple instructions to the software to create either fiction or non-fiction materials for publications. Within an hour of the software scanning a folder, a document is produced within the cast-iron framework of the program for the Fiction or Non-Fiction Bestseller.
Authors and would-be-authors are giving the software a trial run, as they furiously type in their materials.
There are no rivals in this field. Someone tried to create an Instant Bestseller Generator but that did not work out. It seemed for now that there was no competition for the Million Dollar Book Deal Generator.
Shelly, the members of the team, and I were elated with our success.
However, we could not rest on our laurels. We needed to keep our minds and ears on the lookout for any new generators or competitors coming into the book publishing marketplace.
SWAMP was a large international marketplace of all products and services. SWAMP was the biggest store that sold and traded in a diversity of products. There was no competition in the field of selling and publishing which could compete with SWAMP.
The News sensation of the Million-dollar book deal Generator was published in all the leading newspapers in the country and worldwide. The people behind SWAMP were now worried about the rapid progress of the Instant Million-dollar book deal generator.
Jeremy Butler was a young twenty-year-old Author, who bought the Instant Million Dollar Book Deal Generator. He always wanted to be an author. He worked as a Gardener from an early age and took care of his two younger siblings after his Father passed away. His mother Julia had disappeared one day and never returned home when Jeremy turned eighteen. Jeremy always hoped that he would have enough money to search for his mother. It was now two years since his mother had walked out of his life.
The Instant book deal generator was a great creation. Jeremy now had to complete his novel and then submit it through the Instant Book Deal Generator website online. Somehow, Jeremy was not confident that his novel was good enough. It was a novel about a young artist, who discovers hidden treasures, he later has an accident and forgets where he had kept the treasure. The novel was going to be called, “Treasured Art”.
Jeremy was waiting to save up enough money to attend one of the “Book Deal Generator Coaching Classes,” which would focus on what made a book worthy of getting a Million Dollar Book Deal, regardless of being fiction or non-fiction.
He attended to all the gardens in his neighborhood, during the day and he wrote his novel during the afternoons. In the evenings, he visited his girlfriend Asha, who he had known since he was in College.
Jeremy publishes his book using the generator.
He later starts to do a book based on the SWAMP company. The couriers of evil left their evil imprints wherever they went. SWAMP was on a mission to destroy creativity in society. Jeremy does his research on the company and two months later he disappears without a trace.
Richard Foxxen is approached by Asha, Jeremy’s girlfriend who informs him that he has disappeared and the police are unable to locate him.
Richard gets a private investigator, the best in his field to track down Jeremy. He later informs Richard that Jeremy was kidnapped and is believed to be a hostage in an assassin training ground called a Marshland in South America.
After two months of torture, Jeremy escapes and is not heard of for a long period of time.
Richard got up early in the morning and he had time to read the local newspaper before going to work. The front page had a large colored photograph of a building on fire. The fire started in the night with firemen trying to put out the fire. “Library Burns As Fire Fighters Battle the Flames,” was the headline on the front page.
Richard looks at one of the Fire-Fighters fighting the blaze and he seems to look familiar.
Shelly has the television switched on and the morning news is being read by the newsreader.
The news with footage about the library fire is being shown.
The fire-fighter at the front of the flames keeps fighting the fire bravely and does look like a person Richard had seen before. Yes, he was right, Richard thinks to himself, it is him and he also seems to lean to one side, almost as if he had a slight limp. There is a close-up shot of the fire-man, as he turns to the camera to speak to signal to the man behind him to move forward into the blaze.
Yes, the fire-fighter is the same young man, the one who had rescued the teenage girl who was about to commit suicide by jumping off a building.
At the end of the news report, the Fire Marshall is interviewed and he narrates how he heard about the fire, from a mysterious phone caller in the middle of the night.
He also said that the Fire department was short-staffed as it was close to the Christmas season, he had the help of a lot of local volunteers. It was thanks to the efforts of the local young men and women that the “Wayfarer Library” was saved.
Nothing is mentioned about the mysterious young man in the news or in the newspaper who was at the forefront battling the fiery tongues of flames as they devastated a section of the library.
Richard could not help thinking that he needed to speak to this mysterious young man who had a habit of saving places and rescuing people. He always seemed to be at the right place and at the right time to rescue people from harm.
Maybe this young man could be part of his plan to help him to bring down SWAMP Richard thought to himself?
It was now Richard’s intention to find this young hero and to request him to join him in his mission to save the world of independent authors from being destroyed by the gigantic world of professional publishing mammoths like SWAMP.
It was obvious that the young man loved books and it was also possible that he was not yet working for SWAMP. The evil organization was destroying the world of publishing slowly but surely, in their effort to curtail, manipulate and control the freedom and creativity of the printed word.
