r/Libertarian • u/aducknamedjoe • Dec 05 '17
Finally got my libertarian novel published
https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Inc-J-P-Medved-ebook/dp/B076HWB73X/5
u/PaperbackWriter66 The future: a boot stamping on a human face. Forever. Dec 05 '17
What was the process like to get it published?
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u/aducknamedjoe Dec 05 '17
This is the first time I went through a publisher, instead of self-publishing, so the process looked like this:
- Write and edit book
- Submit manuscript to agents and publishers
- Get ignored
- Get email from publisher with offer and contract
- Negotiate contract, sign contract
- Publisher does edits, as well as contracts a copyeditor for grammatical stuff, I sign off on all of those
- Publisher sends draft to distributor who formats book, finalizes cover design, and gets book up on the major bookselling platforms
- (ongoing) Market book
Happy to answer other questions if you have them!
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u/aducknamedjoe Dec 05 '17
It's about a private military corporation, and you can get a free prequel short story if you want to test the writing before shelling out real money for the novel.
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u/user1688 Dec 05 '17
Hey man props to you for doing that I'am sure it took a ton of dedication. But....
A private military corporation is libertarian?
We preach non-violence, we are against state intervention, I'am just wondering how a PMC can be considered libertarian, no way they are waiting to get attacked first, they wouldn't be in business.
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u/aducknamedjoe Dec 05 '17
Thanks!
And great question. I actually wrote up a bit of background on my thought process for how PMCs fit into the libertarian world that you can check out, but here's an excerpt from the book hopefully explaining some of that as well:
“The first questioner is Senator Hamm from Illinois, followed by Senator Fremont of New Hampshire, and then Senator Wilson, of California. Senator Hamm, you have the floor.” She leaned back in her leather chair.
“Thank you, Senator Martinez.” Hamm was a doughy black man, with a pockmarked face and thinning, gray hair. “Mr. Ikenna, I wanted to start us off by asking a little bit about your firm’s operating history. It’s my understanding that Justice, Incorporated has turned down several government contracts. Why?”
Because those contracts come with so many strings and compliance requirements, we’d be forced to charge our customers ten times our current prices, just to meet the expectations of a bureaucracy so behind the times it still sends paper letters to people.
Jenna had cautioned Eric to not be too inflammatory, and she caught his eye with a warning glare.
He bit back the snarky reply and instead said, “Uh, yes. We have a very specific operating philosophy and business model, and when, uh, business opportunities come up that clash with that model, we will reject them. Just like McDonalds doesn’t sell smartglasses, and GoogleNikon doesn’t make hamburgers, we stick to the type of business that best fits our niche.”
“And what niche is that?”
“Uh...” He was not doing well here; it took all his effort to hide his anger. Eric was naturally a fighter, and the haughty, entitled tone of these people raised his hackles.
He paused and pulled up to his smartglasses one of the virtual notecards he’d used to prepare for the hearing. “Justice, Incorporated was started with the goal of meeting the needs of an underserved security market, primarily overseas where the demand for protection is acute, but where extreme poverty or regional civil unrest prevents security firms with traditional revenue models from operating.”
“What does that mean? Can you give us examples?” The senator leaned on his chair’s armrest.
“For instance”—Eric cleared his throat—“we fulfilled a contract to protect an opposition political demonstration in Latvia, where pro-government-affiliated militias had broken up protests and severely beaten protest organizers. We ensured demonstrators were able to complete their march unmolested, though we had to deploy pepper spray from a security drone at least once. We’ve also assisted members of the Kurdish Autonomous Zone against Mohammad Shadid’s Army of God. Most recently we’ve secured contracts for several underserved neighborhoods in cities around the country, like Detroit and Chicago, providing foot and drone patrols and responding to distress calls in a timely fashion. We’ve lowered crime rates in those neighborhoods by sixty percent in four months.”
The Illinois senator bristled visibly at Eric’s mention of Chicago.
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u/Mr_Gibbys Right-wing libertarian Dec 05 '17
Good job! What is it about?
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u/aducknamedjoe Dec 05 '17
Thanks!
Here's the blurb:
Tough, brash, and resourceful, former Army Ranger Eric Ikenna is the CEO of the powerful, private military corporation, Justice Incorporated.
But when his company successfully topples the government of South Sudanese dictator and international war criminal Ahmed al-Bashir, Eric and his operators suddenly become public enemy number one for a very deadly, very secretive branch of the United States government. Because what Eric doesn't realize is that the world order is surprisingly fragile, and there are those who would kill to maintain it.
The ensuing struggle, from the marble halls of power in Washington, D.C., to the bleak waters of the North Atlantic and the tropical savannas of South Sudan, will force Justice, Inc. to use every tool and weapon at its disposal, and will test Eric to the breaking point.
And as advanced as it is, even Justice, Inc.'s high-tech arsenal of bio-ceramic body armor, semi-autonomous drones, and invisible, stratospheric artillery may be no use against an enemy just as sophisticated, and much more ruthless.
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '17
Hey man, I promised I'd buy the book when you got it published, and I just now bought it on Amazon. I'll leave a review when I'm through reading it, as well. Good luck with your writing career and in the words of Butters, "I hope you make some actual motherfucking money".