Write one manuscript but market it in different ways to different audiences, minimizing or maximizing elements as demographics and perception harvesting data mining suggest.
The scenario:
The Russians want pipelines! Control of pipelines! Or maybe, just pictures of pipelines. It's sketchy but one thing's for certain: whatever it is Moscow wants, pipelines are involved. The details will be worked out as I (or the software) write the book.
Let's look at the iterations to-date.
Title for 'Non-fiction', 'Political Thriller' Version:
Conduits of Power: Putin's Quest for World Energy Control and its Link to Terrorism, Male Pattern Baldness and The Author's Three Divorces (prepare notes and get teeth capped for inevitable FOX News interview)
Title for Fiction, 'Political Thriller' Version:
Summer Frost: a Brick Stone Adventure.
NATO agent Brick Stone, fresh from single-handedly defeating the Taliban using only a laser pointer and a nest of trained hornets, has a new assignment. In a startling betrayal of international norms not seen since the last startling betrayal of international norms, the Russians -- brutally ruled by Vladimir 'Pipeline Gaze' Putin with an iron fist gloved in a titanium...glove -- have attacked the defenseless, freedom-loving people of Georgia. Can Brick stop Moscow's fiendish plan, codenamed Ursa Hugs the Pipeline (but in Russian) before freedom is lost...forever?
Title for Soft Pr0n Version:
Lay that Pipe...line.
No one knows how to keep cold nights warm like the tough (but bikini clad) women pipeline workers of Ossetia. They'll make YOUR precious fluids flow! But there's a price...your freedom!
Title for Middlebrow Sci-Fi Version:
M. A. D. H. A. T.
Mechanized
Autonomous
units for the
Defense
of
Hydrocarbon
Assets
and related
Technology
including
Pipelines
There are robots, explosions, some screechy white guy from America with a laptop shouting techno-babble, a bee stung lipped Russian babe named Molotov whose motives are dubious and, um..other plot elements. Details (and hopefully, a more manageable acronym) to follow.
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