the first post in a year.

So I'm going to do this business again. I kept thinking that I wanted to start blogging again but never did because it would be somewhat embarrassing for a writer to start a blog then not write in it for more than a year, then start again.

But what the hey. No one reads this anyway.

So. I'm a writer. It's what I do. I do it everyday. I don't get published hardly at all, but I do it.

I'm starting a new surge of submitting my “ALB!” novel as one of its core concepts and there has been quite of bit of that in the news lately. BUT, it's still a young adult novel that does NOT deal with supernatural supersexy gooey love stories. Meh. We'll see. It's a good story and I know it will get picked up eventually once the market shifts.

Meanwhile, I'm working on a graphic novel with Jeremy Christiansen. It's a larger takeoff on a short story I wrote awhile ago called “The Orange Analogy”. The basic premise is that there is an alternate dimension full of creatures humans consider mythological. The story itself is coming along quite well and consists of some great characters. The artwork that Jeremy is doing is fantastic. It's very exciting to see the brain-mush come out visually.

Another friend of mine, Tyler Cole, and I are starting a collaboration for a graphic novel as well. This one is a sci-fi story staring a normal person. I think I'd like to call it “The Plumber from Earth” and have it be about a plumber who ends up in the middle of huge intergalactic issue with the fate of worlds in the the balance.

AAAAANNNNDDDDD THAT is what I am working on.

Oh. I gave up on Twilight. I just couldn't do it. It was like trying to force myself to be a vegan while beautiful steak was all around me. I have been reading Terry Pratchett books and that has been awesome.

AND this is what it is going to be like here.