For the first time since I started this blog (which I call The Blog That Nobody Reads), I'm getting - readers. Well, at least I'm getting people passing by. And I have a feeling they want to know about my writing that's set in Tacoma. Well, I have a list of upcoming projects, and I talk briefly in one post about my Tacoma steampunk novellas, but I might as well put the whole list right here:
- Rendered Briefly Dark: a YA horror novel about a young girl who thinks she can give herself magic powers by doing weird medical experiments on herself - it's set in Tacoma in the mid 1970's, in University Place
- Summer of Love: an adult horror novel about a middle-aged housewife who finds herself first joining, then fighting, a coven of witches in her Tacoma suburb - this also takes place in the 1970's, and I intend to throw every hideously cliched moment of that decade into this novel. Yay for key parties, macrame owl hangings, and polyester double-knit dresses!
- Lord of the Hunt: a dark fantasy (may or may not be YA) about a demon-killing hermaphrodite who falls in love with one of his/her targets - this will take place in the early 90's in Tacoma.
- "Tacoma Steampunk Trilogy" (series title to be changed): a trio of short novellas about Tacoma in the late 19th century, as seen through the eyes of a ne'er-do-well young man named Gavin and a very strange family on the run from a powerful East Coast university.
- I also have about ten short dark fantasy/horror stories in various stages of completion that are set in Tacoma; and I've got a short outline for a series of YA dark fantasy novels set at Curtis High School - because I'm still bitter about missing out on prom, bitches.
None of those projects listed above are published (although there's been some interest in the novellas, which I can't talk about right now). However, the first short story I published ("Brimstone Orange") was set in University Place, and I have an entry in A Field Guide to Surreal Botany that describes a particularly deadly plant species of the Pacific Northwest. My erotic novella "At the Edge of Ellensburg" in the anthology Short and Sweet is, well, set in Ellensburg - as all my erotic fiction seems to be. I went to college there, so you figure it out. :)
I'm going to say right now, for the record: everything I write about Tacoma and the PNW will be historically inaccurate (wildly so at times), and no doubt everyone living in Tacoma and the PNW will hate me for it, and I'll get tons of mail telling me what a traitorous shit I am for not getting X, Y, and Z right. However, everything I write is essentially dark fantasy, and therefore the Tacoma of my novels is allowed to be an alternate one. Although, as far as I'm concerned, it's not a far stretch from Galloping Gertie to giant mechanical steam-driven cephalopod tears down bridge. Whatever.
However, I'm dead-on about Ellensburg. Hey, it's a college town in the middle of nowhere populated by horny students and cowboys. You figure it out....
- Rendered Briefly Dark: a YA horror novel about a young girl who thinks she can give herself magic powers by doing weird medical experiments on herself - it's set in Tacoma in the mid 1970's, in University Place
- Summer of Love: an adult horror novel about a middle-aged housewife who finds herself first joining, then fighting, a coven of witches in her Tacoma suburb - this also takes place in the 1970's, and I intend to throw every hideously cliched moment of that decade into this novel. Yay for key parties, macrame owl hangings, and polyester double-knit dresses!
- Lord of the Hunt: a dark fantasy (may or may not be YA) about a demon-killing hermaphrodite who falls in love with one of his/her targets - this will take place in the early 90's in Tacoma.
- "Tacoma Steampunk Trilogy" (series title to be changed): a trio of short novellas about Tacoma in the late 19th century, as seen through the eyes of a ne'er-do-well young man named Gavin and a very strange family on the run from a powerful East Coast university.
- I also have about ten short dark fantasy/horror stories in various stages of completion that are set in Tacoma; and I've got a short outline for a series of YA dark fantasy novels set at Curtis High School - because I'm still bitter about missing out on prom, bitches.
None of those projects listed above are published (although there's been some interest in the novellas, which I can't talk about right now). However, the first short story I published ("Brimstone Orange") was set in University Place, and I have an entry in A Field Guide to Surreal Botany that describes a particularly deadly plant species of the Pacific Northwest. My erotic novella "At the Edge of Ellensburg" in the anthology Short and Sweet is, well, set in Ellensburg - as all my erotic fiction seems to be. I went to college there, so you figure it out. :)
I'm going to say right now, for the record: everything I write about Tacoma and the PNW will be historically inaccurate (wildly so at times), and no doubt everyone living in Tacoma and the PNW will hate me for it, and I'll get tons of mail telling me what a traitorous shit I am for not getting X, Y, and Z right. However, everything I write is essentially dark fantasy, and therefore the Tacoma of my novels is allowed to be an alternate one. Although, as far as I'm concerned, it's not a far stretch from Galloping Gertie to giant mechanical steam-driven cephalopod tears down bridge. Whatever.
However, I'm dead-on about Ellensburg. Hey, it's a college town in the middle of nowhere populated by horny students and cowboys. You figure it out....
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