{"id":35040,"date":"2025-10-25T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=35040"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:09:41","slug":"and-on-the-seventh-day-he-rested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/and-on-the-seventh-day-he-rested\/","title":{"rendered":"And on the Seventh Day He Rested"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the words of Anthony Quinn in his portrayal of Alexis Zorba, \u201cI\u2019ve got a plan.\u00a0 A great big crazy plan.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve got things to figure; angles, forces.\u00a0 Otherwise, it will be; catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, I think I\u2019m going to take the plunge and try to market my book with a professional campaign.\u00a0 And just as with Zorba it may turn out to be the full catastrophe!<\/p>\n

But you only live once, you know and there is a certain satisfaction in throwing the dice.\u00a0 Of course, when the dice come up snake eyes that\u2019s a tough moment.\u00a0 Especially if you\u2019ve bet the bundle.<\/p>\n

Be that as it may, I\u2019m feeling pretty good about this and I want to try it.\u00a0 Of course, now there are all the details.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got to put a cover on the book.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019ll hire a proofreader and I have to come up with a nom de plume.\u00a0 \u201cphotog\u201d is kind of informal for a great author.\u00a0 Grok recommended the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. T. Blackwood – Combines a sharp, classic feel with a dark, mysterious edge.<\/li>\n
  2. Grayson Holt – Sounds gritty and determined, fitting for gritty thrillers.<\/li>\n
  3. Silas Crowe – Evokes a brooding, ominous vibe, ideal for dark narratives.<\/li>\n
  4. Nora Kade – Short, punchy, and carries a sense of hidden danger.<\/li>\n
  5. Vincent Quill – Suggests precision and a knack for weaving intricate plots.<\/li>\n
  6. Damian Frost – Cold and calculating, great for intense, chilling stories.<\/li>\n
  7. Raven Locke – Mysterious and enigmatic, with a nod to puzzles and secrets.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Well, I\u2019ll have to give it a little thought.<\/p>\n

    I can just see me now, with \u201cThe Sniper\u201d on top of the New York Times best-seller list for three or four years and the royalty checks piling up in my mud room and Camera Girl forced to keep her innumerable diamond tennis bracelets in an antique bath tub in the laundry room and me building a giant garage on the Compound filled up with antique Dusenbergs and Rolls Royces that I\u2019ll buy from Jay Leno.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll still be \u201cjust folks\u201d and I\u2019ll still use my Sony 90mm F\/2.8 macro lens to take pictures of spiders and flies.\u00a0 I\u2019ll never become a photo snob and buy a Leica or anything like that.<\/p>\n

    But I will have to take on some eccentricities in order to capture the imagination of the reading public.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ll take up big game hunting.\u00a0 But not just shoot boring things like elephants and polar bears.\u00a0 I\u2019ll pay those guys who are restoring the wooly mammoth to name it after me and then I\u2019ll shoot it and make it extinct again so I\u2019ll have the only stuffed wooly mammoth in the world.\u00a0 Then I\u2019ll have them bring back the Giant Rok bird and I\u2019ll shoot that too and I\u2019ll have my Michelin Four Star chef cook the drumsticks specially for me.\u00a0 And then I\u2019ll commission Elon Musk to build me a moon ship.\u00a0 I\u2019ll go to the Moon, set off a nuke and name the subsequent new crater after myself.<\/p>\n

    And after that I\u2019ll rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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