| Novel number six |
[Sep. 4th, 2008|11:57 am] |
Had a sixth novel accepted by Leisure Books yesterday. Depraved is a brutal backwoods horror novel. A two chapter preview will appear in the back of my next novel, Soultaker, due from Leisure Books in February 2009. Don't have a definite pub date for Depraved yet, as Leisure's schedule for the last part of '09 is still being finalized. It could be anywhere from November 2009 to February 2010, and I'm fine with either end of that spectrum.
Pre-order Soultaker here:
http://www.amazon.com/Soultaker-Bryan-Smith/dp/0843961937/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219716942&sr=1-1 |
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| Soultaker cover |
[Jul. 17th, 2008|07:22 pm] |
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| Soultaker |
[Apr. 2nd, 2008|06:46 pm] |
Earlier today Leisure Books accepted my novel Soultaker. This will be released Feb. 09 and will be my fifth published novel.
As AC/DC would say, "Have a drink on me." |
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| Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies |
[Oct. 6th, 2007|08:49 pm] |
(NOTE: Below is copied from my My Space blog entry of yesterday. Offered here to explain why no new novel updates in the last month and half or so.)
Tonight I finally finished a draft of this story. Came in at about 38,500 words. I'll probably cut a few thousand or so of that in revisions, with a final length in the range of 35,000 words or so, making it a longish novella. My original intent for this story was that it be a short novelette of around 15,000 words, but it became more complex as I went along and even tried to turn into a novel. I exercised a bit of discipline and scaled back what I was doing. Still, the week or two break I envisioned taking from writing a new novel turned into a month and a half break. It would've been easy to let RNRRSZ spiral out of control and become a full-fledged novel, but that wouldn't have been the right thing to do. Some stories are meant to be novellas rather than novels and this was one of them. I'm very pleased with the way it turned out. Obviously at 35,000 words it can't be the little chapbook I originally intended. One publisher already has first-look dibs and we'll see how that goes. I'll share news when I have it.
The best news for me is that in a few days I'll finally be able to get back to work on a full novel.
Later,
Bryan |
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| Fucking awesome |
[Oct. 2nd, 2007|11:05 pm] |
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| Return to the Madhouse |
[Aug. 13th, 2007|10:34 pm] |
Didn't write much at all for several days, aside from a couple hundred words at a time here and there. My wife was sick much of that time. Also, there's no A/C in the writing room and there's been a fucking heat wave on. Finally got back on track today with somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,600 or 1,700 words.
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| Madhouse update |
[Aug. 5th, 2007|02:48 pm] |
Didn't write yesterday, but had a productive day today, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,900 words or slightly under.
Total:
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| The Madness |
[Aug. 3rd, 2007|05:34 pm] |
Life complications have prevented me from working much on Madhouse the last few days. But I did get some work in today and this is where we stand.
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| 10,000 and rolling |
[Jul. 30th, 2007|09:28 pm] |
Didn't quite reach yesterday's heights again, but it was another good day nonetheless. And I exceeded my 10,000 words before Tuesday goal. Now, of course, the production level will dip until my next days off. But I'll do what I can when I have the time during the work week.
The computer I use for writing is an older one (late 90's), and I'd been having some problems with Microsoft Works, the word processing program I've used to write all my novels. It froze toward the end of yesterday's session and I lost several hundred words. Luckily I was on fire that day and it wasn't too hard to recreate what I'd lost. I installed Open Office on that computer today, a free word processing program with an autosave feature, and experienced no problems at all. I'll probably use it from now on. |
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| Long stint in the Madhouse |
[Jul. 29th, 2007|07:25 pm] |
Very productive day today. Just under 2,100 words. Unless I get lazy or something unforeseen takes up my time, I should easily be able to get to my 10,000 goal before returning to the day job on Tuesday.
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| Back into the Madhouse |
[Jul. 29th, 2007|01:31 am] |
Did not work on this the last few days for various reasons. Then today I did a respectable 1,200 or so words. I'm off the next two days and so I'm hoping to get to the 10,000 mark by the end of that period. The upside of the couple of days or not writing is that I was thinking about the story frequently during that time and came up with quite a bit of material. Whole chapters mapped out in my head in advance, and usually I don't have that advantage. The writing today was putting part of that down and it was just flowing out.
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| Word count madness |
[Jul. 25th, 2007|09:40 am] |
Yesterday was another fairly productive day. Did a shade under 1,300 words while getting chapter three of Madhouse off to a roaring start. But now it's back to the workday grind and only a few hundred words here and there until my next days off.
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| Madhouse word count |
[Jul. 23rd, 2007|06:42 pm] |
After a few days of not really being able to work on it much--aside from a few hundreds words here, another few hundred there a couple days--I did a bit over 1,100 words to finish chapter two of Madhouse today. I'm starting this months earlier than I started Queen of Blood last year, so I'm not too concerned with knocking out huge chunks of wordage early on. It'll get done at a more leisurely pace than QOB and that's fine with me.
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| New novel underway |
[Jul. 16th, 2007|10:42 pm] |
First chapter wrapped today.
Madhouse word count, first installment:
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| Drunk teenager totals our car |
[Jun. 22nd, 2007|04:59 am] |
X-POSTED ALL OVER THE DAMN PLACE
So my wife and I walked into our bedroom around 2:30 am to go to bed. We typically keep late hours because of my job hours. Anyway...I look out our bedroom window and see approximately one and a half gazillion flashing blue lights. Of course I'm curious, so I go over to the window, peek through the blinds, and see at least six cop cars blocking off the street next to our apartment building. I made some comment to my wife along the lines of, "I'm glad that's nothing to do with us."
Never say anything like this. The word "jinx" comes to mind.
Because a few moments later we see a cop come walking toward our building and then through the little courtyard. Still not thinking much about it. Couldn't have anything to do with us, right?
WRONG.
Knock on the door. It's a cop. There's been some kind of accident involving cars parked at the curb alongside the building. We soon discover our 2001 Honda Accord is one of them. We follow the cop outside, go around the building, and holy fucking shit...it looks like a scene from Die Hard or some other big action movie.
Now, we live in the city, in the middle of Nashville. The apartment building we live in only has a small lot out back, so we are frequently forced to park at the curb. Never think twice about it, either. Until now. Because a big black pickup that was parked in front of our car is now some thirty to fifty feet back along the curb. It is TRASHED. A completely mangled mess. And it slammed into our car, sending it backward into a telephone pole. And so our car is also trashed.
And what caused this? A cop pulled over a teenager in an SUV, put a light in his car, and the stupid motherfucking teenager decided to take off. Shortly after his mad dash from the law, he hit our vehicles. There was beer all over the SUV, apparently. The cops didn't want to say much, but it was clear the little asshole was drunk as hell. This kid is eighteen. He had another 18 year old and a 17 year old in the car with them. How they survived is a complete mystery to me, but they didn't appear to have a scratch on them.
I'm thankful, though, that this insane thing didn't happen just a little sooner. We'd gone out to buy cat food less than a half hour before the "accident" happened. We could so easily have been in the car when this occurred.
This car was my only way to work. It was my wife's way to her every three weeks chemo treatment. And this happened just one day before we were supposed to drive this car to a week-long Florida vacation, a vacation very sorely needed after what has been an extremely difficult year. We may yet go on the vacation by riding with family (it's a whole family beach house vacation). It would be nice to go. Our luck has been nothing but rotten, though. Will wait to see how everything plays out today before deciding.
Now it's a couple hours later. I'm still wired from all this and don't feel like sleeping anytime soon. And I'm writing this because I need badly to vent.
I kept looking at that asshole sitting in the back of the cop car and wishing I could smack him upside his stupid fucking head, but it just wouldn't be worth the trouble.
My wife was interviewed by the Channel 4 news here and may be on the local news later. Rachael, ever looking for book-pimping opportunities, wanted to mention my books. I didn't let her. Don't know why. I may or may not be thinking straight at the moment.
Anyway, that about covers it. Oh, and my birthday was two days ago. Happy fucking birthday to me. |
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| Queen of Blood |
[Jun. 4th, 2007|09:09 pm] |
It's finally official.
Leisure Books will release Queen of Blood, the sequel to House of Blood, in April 2008.
Yay!
Bryan |
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| Surely this is a glitch... |
[Feb. 13th, 2007|03:48 pm] |
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Several online bookstores--including Amazon.com--are already showing The Freakshow as being in stock. That seems awfully early. I don't like to bother my editor with every little question, so maybe one of you out there will have some insight about this. Is this likely a glitch, or could these online stores really already have the book in stock? |
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| Pod Of Horror interview |
[Jan. 14th, 2007|12:35 pm] |
I've been interviewed for the newest installment of Pod of Horror, just out today.
Listen to me talk about The Freakshow, writing habits, and more:
http://www.horrorworld.org/poh.htm |
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