My previous post about BQB’s 1000th game plan was my 1000th post. Go me. I have no life. I mean, hooray, I did it all for my beloved 3.5 readers.
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BQB’s Future Game Plan
My previous post aside, here is where my mind is at the moment:
SEASON ONE OF POP CULTURE MYSTERIES – A series of posted stories on popculturemysteries.com in which Jake Dashing, a private investigator who fell asleep for sixty years, adjusts to modern life. Begrudgingly, he’ll search for answers to BQB’s pop culture questions and share mysteries from his past and present.
By the end of Season One, Jake’s past will catch up to him in the form of an “item” or “items” he acquired during a mission he went on in World War II in which he <WAIT FOR IT> punched Adolf Hitler in the face.
Someone wants that item/items. A bad someone. And he’ll be willing to wreak havoc on Jake’s new modern life and the people he cares about to get it.
And that someone does not like that Jake has been talking online about how he punched Hitler in the face, even if BQB’s blogs only have 3.5 readers.
That’s 3.5 too many for this bad guy.
THAT LEADS INTO…
OPERATION FUHRERPUNSCHEN – the first novel I hope to publish set in Jake’s world, detailing how he, you guessed it, punched Adolf Hitler in the face and acquired the item/items so desired by the bad guy in season one.
BOOKSHELF BATTLE CROSSOVER – Yup. If you’re into it, you’ll have to read both blogs. The “bad someone” will infuriate Jake to the point where top secrets be damned and he contracts with Bookshelf Q. Battler to publish Operation Fuhrerpunschen.
There is significant backlash. Bookshelf Q. Battler, for helping Jake disclose details of the top secret punch Hitler in the face mission, is taken from his beloved BQB Headquarters and thrown into an undisclosed, clandestine government “black site.”
Video Game Rack Fighter will then take the blog over as host for the foreseeable future after that, saddened that her nerdy man is gone but willing to do her part to keep his dream of entertaining 3.5 readers alive.
BOOKSHELF Q. BATTLER NOVEL – At first I thought BQB’s escapes were only something for the blog, but I thought of an idea that is funny enough (with just the right amount of adventure) that it might be worth a full fledged novel.
Long story short, a worldwide crisis occurs…THAT ONLY A NERD CAN SOLVE. BQB is given the chance to win back his freedom…IF HE SAVES THE WORLD!
UNDISCLOSED OTHER NOVEL – BQB might spend a long ass time in that black site, giving me enough time to write a novel that has nothing to do with BQB or Jake. Did I say I’ll write it? I mean that Video Game Rack Fighter will find a novel that BQB wrote and self-publish it for him…I can only assume because doing so will keep the Mighty Potentate at bay.
The Mighty Potentate won’t be pleased the Chosen One is missing, after all.
THE FUTURE, FUTURE: Notice I haven’t said when any of the above will happen because who the heck knows when I’ll be able to get to all or any of it? A year? Couple of years? I don’t know. As fast as possible without sacrificing quality or giving myself a stroke basically.
But, if you all dig it and the numbers are there to justify carrying on, I foresee:
MORE JAKE NOVELS: Two more after the Hitler punching mission in which Jake a) has an adventure in Hong Kong and b) has an adventure in Cuba before going back to America. And if you like it, there will be more cases from his past and even some more novel worthy adventures in his present.
MORE BQB NOVELS – If I can think of more BQB novel worthy nonsense. That I’m not sure of. But possibly. They will likely require a character to sit the adventure out and host the blog with the claim that BQB can’t blog right now as he is on an adventure. Maybe the Yeti can take over.
MORE INDEPENDENT NOVELS – That have nothing to do with this nonsense. VGRF keeps finding them in BQB’s sock drawer or something. Who knows?
DESIGN – The books will be written in such a way that you won’t have had to read the blogs to enjoy them. If you enjoy the books, hopefully you’ll dig deeper into the blogs.
And allow me to sell you more stuff so I can get pizzaid. I didn’t say that. I’m in this for the art.
ANYWAY… I’ve just laid out a possible game plan for the future, what say you, 3.5 readers? Are you in for this ride or does it all sound incredibly dumb and I should just go pound sand?
Blogging vs. Book Writing
I fully intended to write and self-publish a book this year.
Originally, the one post a day challenge was never meant to be anything more than “at least say hello” once a day to attract more followers.
But then I got into it. Bookshelf Q. Battler was born. His supporting cast was born. Holy crap, there was even a spin off in “Pop Culture Mysteries.”
As the year comes to an end, I’ve gained roughly a thousand new blog followers, over 5000 additional Twitter followers, 800 Google Plus followers, etc.
That’s all great, though few of them actually make the leap to come over and check what’s happening on the blog.
So as rich as BQB’s world has grown, it dawns on me that had I taken the bit of time I used every day to write a blog post and focused it onto a novel, I’d of been able to get a novel published this year.
There’s the rub. There are many who say that getting that book out onto Amazon will do more for you than blogging. Amazon has more power than your blog, after all.
But then there’s another rub. There’s two rubs. Until this becomes a money making endeavor, I’d rather let BQB take all the credit. But that means building up the BQB brand. Giving our nerdy hero a backstory, friends, enemies, building his world, Jake’s world, and letting them cross over on the blogs now and again.
I worry that people don’t like to read fiction on blogs. But my hope is that maybe enough of you will grow to like BQB and Jake enough to want to read their adventures in a book format, whenever I get around to writing and publishing one.
Meanwhile, when that book comes out, I hope people who like it will be interested enough to check out the stuff on my blogs.
QUESTION: Stick with the fictional blogs tying into books idea or scrap it and just focus on writing and publishing 1-2 books a year, with little to no more blogging as that cuts too much into book writing time. My free time is very limited so whatever I do, it needs to count.
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