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Archive for May 2010
May 31, 2010 | 
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Before There be Monsters! Before the Alex and Jackie Adventures, there was fission – the amazing, but true, story of Lise Meitner. I first heard of Lise Meitner when I read the David Bodanis book, e=mc2. Lise’s was such an incredible story that I had to find out more about her, so I read biographies about Lise and her more famous contemporaries, and the more I read the more I was shocked that I’d never head of this woman – maybe the most important woman of the 20th century.
“Someone has to tell this story,” I complained to Leigh.
“Then why don’t you tell it,” she replied.
The result of that conversation was my screenplay, fission, which, although it won critical acclaim (including finalist at the London Independent Film Festival), remains unproduced. I turned to other projects, such as First Night, but I could not just forget Lise Meitner.
Because the story of Lise Meitner is too important to forget; and so I’m taking it up a notch.
Starting in June, I shall be turning fission into a novel; and I shall be presenting it in serial form, free of charge, to my facebook fans. I expect the finished work to be delivered over the course of the next year, chapter by chapter as each is written.
This is a major experiment for me. For you, you’ll get this story hot off the press, as it is written.More importantly, you’ll get to read about Lise Meitner. If, like me, you had never heard of her, you are in for something really astounding: a story of determination, prejudice, betrayal, presidents, kings, two world wars, the atomic bomb, and one little woman who lived through it all, never gave up, and shaped the world we live in.
So stay tuned to this page.
Chapter 1 of fission will be published here in June, 2010.
Regards,
Tom
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At last, the end . . .
The May Virtual Tour is done and dusted, but thanks to the wonders of the internet, it is available in perpetuity in re-run. I’d like to thank everyone who took the time to visit the blogs and comment; and I’d like to thank everyone at Pump Up Your Book! for the organizing.
We finish on a high note, with the premier of a new short story Christopher Wren Builds a Cathedral.
For the remainder of 2010, the story will be featured exclusively at at The Hot Author Report, so to read it, please click on the link and visit.
JM, who hosts The Hot Author Report, is emblematic of the book loving community that has popped up in the blogosphere, and who work tirelessly to introduce and promote authors and works that are worthy of your attention. You met a cross-section of them on this tour, this month. So thank you to JM and all the others.
I encourage everyone to visit their blogs and leave comments and let them know how much we appreciate their efforts. Here is a list of the sites I visited during this past month:
Pump Up Your Book!
Paperback Writer
Literarily Speaking
The Plot
The Children’s and Teens’ Book Connection
The Life (and lies) of an inanimate flying object
A Book and a chat with Storyheart
Rex Robot Reviews
Life in the First Draft
The Examiner
The Cajun Book Lady
Readaholic
Just One More Paragraph
The Hot Author Report
Brizmus Blogs Books
Regards,
Tom
The May Virtual Tour is starting to wind down, but not before a review of The Elf of Luxembourg on Brizmus Blogs Books. Fair, balanced, and an appreciation for Cuchaquichá, which means Brizmus is OK by me.
Regards,
Tom
Last day of the May Virtual Tour marathon . . .
And today is a busy one. I start the day being interviewed by JM at The Hot Author Report. This is a precursor to an exclusive, I’ll be unveiling later today.
Regards,
Tom
Only on the internet can I be in two places at once. At after a spot of morning tea in Boston, I can have afternoon tea in Japan, and a visit to Brizmus Blogs Books to chat about Fact vs. Fiction.
Regards,
Tom