Twenty Thousand Little Clown-Truths

Well, gentle-persons of the night odors, I broke 20,000 words. 20,200 to be exact. That's 20,200 words about clowns, creeps, redneck zombies and emo-Disturby in the making. Slowly but surely, Klowns are spilling forth from the keyboard, and the glorious bursting forth draweth nigh.

In other news, I registered klownkroo.com mostly just to take ownership of the domain and park it. I might do a little disturbing klown-themed flash game. You just never know. Or mebbe an excerpt of the book will appear there. Or troubling artwork. Or the aroma of peanuts, grease paint and meat will waft out of the speakers when you go there. You just never can tell with these sorts of dumb ideas.

Klowny Klowns

Worked on Klown Kroo a bit tonight. Got 17.5k words, roughly, give or take. The Klown Kroo just arrived in West Fork to find disturbing things. Troubling things. Nauseating things. People, this books is going to have 1) clowns, 2) alien parasites, 3) zombie-like mobs, 4) a Mugabe-style villain. Seriously, what more does the literary world want from me?

Aether Again?

Just learned about a whole bunch of book publishers that I previously knew not of over at Duotrope's Digest. They are smaller publishers than, say, Tor or Baen or whatever, but there are a lot of them. So I decided to go ahead and query some of them about my novel that used to be called Mindy Lightbearer (it is now called Mary of the Aether). Hey, I have this whole, completed novel sitting on the hard drive. Might as well not abandon it. Live the dream, Mary Lanham, wielder of the Aether. Don't let the Devourers stop you from seeing print.

Gooty and His Questions

Finally got back to working on Klown Kroo. Daniel is riding in the cab with Gooty, being asked uncomfortable questions and learning unpleasant things about clowns and parasites. The book is at 16,260 words. As a paperback book, that would be about 60-65 pages. So we gots a ways to go.

Leaping

My short story, "Leaping," is finally on the schedule at Bewildering Stories. They actually accepted it a few months ago, but it took time to get scheduled for an appearance. Looks like it will be online August 9 at this place: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/

I wrote "Leaping" on my way back from Orlando last December. It was an Orlando to Dallas to Tulsa flight. I started writing it on the flight to Dallas, wrote most of it while waiting in Dallas, then finished it on the flight to Tulsa. That was December 12, 2009. It will finally appear and be read by people approximately 8 months after it was written.

Another Paying Gig

Just had another story accepted for publication. "Stone Breaker" will appear in November 2010, both online and in print. The online edition is called Sorcerous Signals, and the print edition is called Mystic Signal. I had to print out a contract, scan it and send it back. It's a paying gig ($15, which is $5 for appearing online and $10 for appearing in print). Not too shabby (i.e. better than nothing).

"Stone Breaker" is the story of the most hated man in the world meeting a creepy female assassin who has been sent to kill him. Of course, unexpected things take place, including a mob of crazed people trying to tear his house down, and it ends in a way that makes Lisa say, "That's too bleak." So there you go. Expect to love it, Children of the Sea.