Also, there’s no shame in writing to the tween demographic or aspiring to the success of the books you mentioned. Everyone wants a piece of that cash cow.

But it is the first book in a seven part series. I spent a good 2-3 weeks planning out the story as a whole, which is where I came up with the number seven. I also spent that time writing and drawing in a sketchpad to create a sort of “bible” for myself. The last thing I want is to constantly contradict myself on accident.

I do not want to go into too many details just yet. But however I will say that it is aimed towards the “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” age group (I am in no way saying it has anything to do with those series, because it does not. It was just an example of target audience). If I ever find someone foolish enough to publish this I want some of that cash money, haha.

Story wise it is a fantasy with some science fiction elements and is set in the near-future of the real world.

I am currently polishing the first three chapters so I can have my pops read them. He now has five published works and two more deals coming to fruition. So hopefully this will not be too far-fetched of an idea for me to get published since he knows people and we have a family friend who is a higher up at Random House. But if all fails I am still enjoying this as a hobby while saving money for a truck. I have no real hope of it ever happening, but I may as well try since I am having fun.

I am also vain enough to be writing this in an epic enough scope to make good movies, haha.

Once the chapters are edited I can shoot them to your email if you want to read them sometime during a stint of boredom.

I myself started writing a book a couple weeks ago, I am three chapters and twelve thousand words in.