Iran war novel: Inevitable?

[createashemale]

Today's missile tests in Iran, recent military exercises in Isreal, and the Bush administration's repeated declarations that "all options remain on the table", seem to be ample reason to write that next novel about the war in Iran that might, or might not, happen. I would contend that book buyers are eager for a novelist's take on how such a conflict might begin, unfold, and conclude. Granted, Jane's Defense Weekly offers accurate intelligence on the major players, and a sanitized form of speculation concerning future events. But book buyers want to read blood. A hero, a villain, or an unsuspecting accomplice provide the intrigue and suspense for any great war novel. Will we see such a novel? Or will the as yet, unfinished manuscript, lie dormant, buried under the protesting rejection of a publisher's diplomacy?

 

[Carnevil9]

I predict this novel will disappear into a black hole.

 

[sr71plt]

Ummm, you need to understand the world of publishing a little bit better. If this Iran novel exists, it's already been drafted, picked up by an agent, and is at least as far as being in the hands of a publishing house acquisitions editor--who is already on the phone asking the author to recast sections of the novel by this Thursday to take this development into account. (In fact the author is already working on the section where the Israelis are bombing the Iranian nuclear facilities--again).

If it gets to the bookstore shelves in August, it was drafted no latter than last October.