Video on YouTube

Today I spent too much time putting together a YouTube video. I've just about given up on finding an agent for the first book in my Speed of Darkness series. I just keep telling myself that Stephen King's book The Gunslinger first came out through a minor publisher so I assume it had no agent either. And that is the first book of his Dark Tower series. So it's not hopeless for my Nigel Hunter character.

Roland Deschain eventually made his way into books that sold multi-millions of copies!

I've been looking at a website that I can use to pitch it to multiple publishers without an agent. One of the things that they require is a description on YouTube.
So for a couple of days I've been collecting free Chromebook programs to make YouTube videos. I already posted one trial that I made with a program that pastes a huge ad for themselves on top of the video, but that was bugging me, so I found a better editor that has no watermark.
And now I've made my video that's just over 2 minutes.
I still need to edit it a bit, but I'm pretty happy with the video now, and I think I can stop video editing for the day. Here it is:
https://youtu.be/v3aFFQ1nsHE

Reading Comparisons

I'm putting together a proposal for my book The Illumination Query in an attempt to attract a publisher for it. One thing that many people ask for is a list of comparable books.
I could quickly compare one of my characters to Lex Luther from Superman and my evil company The Eclipse to Oscorp from Spiderman and Weyland-Yutani conglomerate in the “Alien” movies. I figured my hacker group 'The Solar Flare was something like fsociety’ in ‘Mr. Robot’ (basically a fictional 'Anonymus'). And of coarse, having something of a mad scientist as the main character for half of the book, I had to mention Joss Whedon’s ‘Dr. Horrible’.
Not sure that I really had enough, I asked my sister if she had thought up any comparisons and she surprised me with two stories that I didn't know; The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Passage. So I decided that I ought to read these before I try to make the comparisons.
And I'm blogging right now because my Kindle batteries are dead...

My current writing focuses

Curious what I'm up to as an armature writer? Right now I'm doing 3 things.

1 You may have seen it on Twitter, there is currently a month long hashtag event, #storywarriors were @writeratops is asking different authors a new question about their current writing projects every day. I'm using it to build up the plot for my new time-travel book that I'm calling Alternate at the moment. you can see my answers here.

2 I'm probably making something of a pest of myself, but I'm trying to find a literary agent for the book I wrote last year that I call From Elsewhere. It's about an alien that comes to Earth.

3 I'm trying to put together an outline to describe the book that I actually finished in 2014 that I call The Illumination Query. I've nearly given up on finding an agent for it, but because I've toyed with the idea of writing a whole series that follows it with 5 or 6 stories called The Speed of Darkness I'm not giving up on it yet. I'm looking into how I may be able to attract a publisher to it without an agent, hence the detailed outline.

I have self published a few short works on kindle, and some short early works on Smashwords, but I'm pretty pathetic in my own skimpy promotion efforts; So I've decided that I need to get an agent or a professional publisher if I seriously want to sell my work.