So I recently made my dark fantasy novel, Hate Ghost, available for Amazon/Kindle. This is my first novel - or at least, the first novel I have been pleased with and confident enough to release publicly. So now that it's out, my next move, of course, is to make as many rookie mistakes as I can while publicizing it.

That's right! I'm probably about to become that guy, the guy who bumbles into the saloon, causing the music to stop and all the locals to go dead quiet.

I have at least avoided waving my book around where it's entirely unwelcome, and better yet I've somehow managed to resist the urge to review it myself (saw that done a couple of times yesterday while looking for advertising ideas and was sort of... blown away? Ballsy, I suppose?) All the same I'm sure I am about to make a wealth of silly "new guy" blunders, hopefully the kind where I can look back in five years and laugh, gently and without too much derision.

In case you're curious about my book, it tells the tale of... well, I'll just copy-paste what I wrote for Amazon:

"When a sudden, inexplicable vortex violently tears them from the routine of their everyday lives, the staff and clientele of a small backwater inn wake amidst the bones of a city lost to time. Here, they must piece together the circumstances leading to their abduction - and determine who among them is responsible - if they hope to survive the desolate necropolis, one another, and above all, the horrifying vengeful entities which hunt them."

In short, it's a bleak, disturbing horror-fantasy, where if I have done my job, I have cross-bred the two genres with some success, and if I haven't, well, I can only hope that it has some merit which I can build on. I will hopefully continue to learn and grow as a writer, planning, as I am, to continue to hybridize my favorite escapist genres.

And hopefully, to muscle past "rookie" as quickly and painlessly as I can.