Impostor Assassin

Dream of the Million Dollar Book Deal

The phone rang on the desk, where Richard was working on his computer.

"Hello, Richard here."

"Hi Richard, it's me, Gary."

"How are you doing Gary? Changed your mind?"

"Yes, in fact, I have. I met Jim the other day when I went to an auction in the city. We got chatting about the instant million-dollar book generator which you and his sister are working on. He sold me the idea. You can sign me on."

"Thanks, Gary, that's wonderful news, welcome aboard."

"Speak to you later Richard, just send over any documents which need to be signed."

"Will do and thanks once again," said Richard.

"You should thank Jim, he had a great pitch for the project," said Gary.

I could not wait to tell Shelly the good news.

So, I picked up the mobile and rang her.

"You won't believe what just happened," said Richard excitedly.

"What is it," said Shelly who was busy at work attending to customers in the computer store.

"Gary signed on to the project."

"That's great. I'll call you later. I'm busy right now at the store."

"Yes, we'll speak later."

I had formed a think-tank team online for the project over the last two months, managed by Regina the girl who was helping me with my grandfather's novel.

Feedback was so important, as were the trends in the publishing industry.

A new Author published and a successful author boosted every day on the bestseller list was the basis of the book project my team and I were tirelessly working on. I had a team working on the trends in the book industry. The typical niches which were enjoyed by readers were explored. It seemed that romance, thrillers, science fiction, and horror were high up on the bestseller lists. We were in the process of analyzing the metrics of a bestseller both fiction and non-fiction.

The Million dollar book deal was the main focus of my team's efforts under the able direction of my girlfriend Shelly. We were trying to combine all the facts that we had with us, of the likes of readers, the most popular book categories, the readership base, the age groups, and all other relevant factors like book covers, titles, and colors to make the process more manageable.

We had Devlin a great MIT computer programmer and his geek squad of four friends who were developing a metric system to interpret all the data that we had collected on bestsellers over the last ten years.

One year later, Shelly and the team develop the fully automated Million Dollar Book Deal Generator.

Designing all the features of the generator together took time. We were creating a ready database of publishers. Our team arranged several meetings with Agents and Book Publishers who would accept the proposal.

The next important feature of the program was the Automatic Manuscript Diagnostic Feature.

The Instant Book Contract Offer was outlined and after several drafts, it was finally approved. We wanted the author of a piece of writing to have all the rights to his or her own intellectual property at all times.

A computer check of the manuscript was developed keeping in mind the subject the novel or book would cover and if it had a ready market.

This entailed the valuing of the Book Content and if found to be of the marketable standard expected, then Issuing the Book Contract was to be the next step.