'nother wee update
SOME MUSINGS ON CURRENT (fictional) PROJECTS
The ‘punked’ Edgar Allan Poe anthology "Merely This and Nothing More" has received some raving reviews and recognition in the form of awards (Best 2016 Anthology by Metamorph Publishing, Best Punk Book by Virtual Fantasy Con 2016 and Literary Valour in Short Stories by Birds of a Feather Literary Awards). I am very proud that my short story ‘The Oval Sky Room’ is part of this anthology as it was my first outing into the steampunk genre. In a curious mix of genuine excitement and calculated opportunism most of my current projects seek to build on this initial success.
So what WIPs may translate into new publications in 2017?
'Smuggler’s Song' is a short story which I intend to submit for the new Writerpunk anthology. If it’s accepted it will appear in the classics anthology planned for Spring 2017. The story is based on Rudyard Kipling’s A Smuggler’s Song and allows me to translate my fascination with the Sussex smuggling heritage to the same steampunk ‘Verse my other steampunk projects are based in, namely Brighthelmston and environs.
'Windmills on Hollingbury Hill' is a short story which I intend to submit to a Brighton steampunk anthology which doesn’t have a title yet, though "The Yellow Book Chronicles: Brightonesque" is a candidate. This should be published somewhere in 2017 and is inspired (and blessed) by the Writerpunk project in Seattle. My story will be set in the aforementioned Brighthelmston ‘Verse.
"Amster Damned" is a steampunk novella which claims to be a Sussex Steampunk Novella but this first of a series is set entirely in Amsterdam! Eventually the main characters will end up in Sussex, but they may need to go to Paris, El Kahira, Nouvelle Orleans, Kathmandu and some other places first. The series will be called Time Flight Chronicles and in some distant future the novellas will be lumped together and published as the novel Time Flight. The story is set in my Brighthelmston ‘Verse.
"Hidden Spring", the new Secrets of the Wyrde Woods novel, is still in production but I am engaged in a tug of war with the protagonists about some of the finer details of the story. So far, we have agreed that the story will be set in the Wyrde Woods, but that’s about all we agree on. Hence, they are striking, I am striking, we are all on strike, though I do suspect we’ll reach a settlement soon.
Sooo? Can I count this little itty-bitty update for Nanowrimo? I’m well behind schedule, yet to reach 10,000.
The ‘punked’ Edgar Allan Poe anthology "Merely This and Nothing More" has received some raving reviews and recognition in the form of awards (Best 2016 Anthology by Metamorph Publishing, Best Punk Book by Virtual Fantasy Con 2016 and Literary Valour in Short Stories by Birds of a Feather Literary Awards). I am very proud that my short story ‘The Oval Sky Room’ is part of this anthology as it was my first outing into the steampunk genre. In a curious mix of genuine excitement and calculated opportunism most of my current projects seek to build on this initial success.
So what WIPs may translate into new publications in 2017?
'Smuggler’s Song' is a short story which I intend to submit for the new Writerpunk anthology. If it’s accepted it will appear in the classics anthology planned for Spring 2017. The story is based on Rudyard Kipling’s A Smuggler’s Song and allows me to translate my fascination with the Sussex smuggling heritage to the same steampunk ‘Verse my other steampunk projects are based in, namely Brighthelmston and environs.
'Windmills on Hollingbury Hill' is a short story which I intend to submit to a Brighton steampunk anthology which doesn’t have a title yet, though "The Yellow Book Chronicles: Brightonesque" is a candidate. This should be published somewhere in 2017 and is inspired (and blessed) by the Writerpunk project in Seattle. My story will be set in the aforementioned Brighthelmston ‘Verse.
"Amster Damned" is a steampunk novella which claims to be a Sussex Steampunk Novella but this first of a series is set entirely in Amsterdam! Eventually the main characters will end up in Sussex, but they may need to go to Paris, El Kahira, Nouvelle Orleans, Kathmandu and some other places first. The series will be called Time Flight Chronicles and in some distant future the novellas will be lumped together and published as the novel Time Flight. The story is set in my Brighthelmston ‘Verse.
"Hidden Spring", the new Secrets of the Wyrde Woods novel, is still in production but I am engaged in a tug of war with the protagonists about some of the finer details of the story. So far, we have agreed that the story will be set in the Wyrde Woods, but that’s about all we agree on. Hence, they are striking, I am striking, we are all on strike, though I do suspect we’ll reach a settlement soon.
Sooo? Can I count this little itty-bitty update for Nanowrimo? I’m well behind schedule, yet to reach 10,000.
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