for the WIN

[swan_tower]

We've been joking for a while that I should come up with some book idea that would allow me to write off the upcoming Mediterranean cruise as research, and therefore a business expense. (We aren't paying for the cruise itself, but y'know, the expenses that go with it.)

On the way to Boston for VeriCon, my subconscious coughed up just such an idea.

The best part is, I wasn't trying to think of any such thing. I've been toying with some YA ideas lately, trying to think of what else I could do to ensure an ongoing YA publishing career, and one of my ideas (archaeological in nature) hopped from Mesoamerica to Egypt to the classical world, and then did a neat little do-si-do and came back out as a story about archaeological looting, the black market in antiquities, and supernatural happenings on board . . . you guessed it . . . a cruise ship.

Right now, my subconscious appears to be made of win.

Comments

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

That's.... awesome.

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

Archaeological looting, the black market in antiquities, and supernatural happenings on board a cruise ship? Oh please have a YA protagonist who starts out complaining about being trapped on the ship. :)

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

<g> Actually, I was thinking of going the other way, and having the character be a die-hard classics geek. Okay, she might not be wild about the cruise ship itself, but it's taking her to Rome and Pompeii and Athens, and that's all that really matters.

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

So she can have an "OMG it's REAL?! *_*" reaction? :D

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Much more like that, yes. ^_^

[mirrorred-star.livejournal.com]

Oh, your subconcious is definately made of awesome.