Last night I ripped apart my steampunk novelette, and worked a few of the characters and story elements into a synopsis for a novel. And the verdict is: I'm pleased with the result, enough that I've decided that this project, not my novellas, will be the next thing I work on. It's going to be set in the sprawling cemetery district of my Lovecraftian mining metropolis known as "New Y'ha-nthlei", aka the more pronounceable "Obsidia". Main characters will be a newly-orphaned (or so she believes!) young girl sold into slavery, a fiesty Cthulhuian cephalopod who learns how to pilot the abandoned steam engine robot body of the girl's mother (!), and a twisted, centuries-old caretaker/witch who is feared by both the living and the dead, and who often goes by the title "The Cemetery Queen". That's also the title of the novel.
I know, I know: there's an appalling lack of males in this storyline. Well, that will be rectified in the next stand-alone novel in this series, which will all take place in various districts of Obsidia. Or so I've very tentatively decided. All I know for sure is the above plot, that this will be a stand-alone novel of no more than 100,000, and will probably not be YA. I'd love for it to be YA, but my character's potty mouths always seem to do me in. ::sigh:: They're just like me. :)
I know, I know: there's an appalling lack of males in this storyline. Well, that will be rectified in the next stand-alone novel in this series, which will all take place in various districts of Obsidia. Or so I've very tentatively decided. All I know for sure is the above plot, that this will be a stand-alone novel of no more than 100,000, and will probably not be YA. I'd love for it to be YA, but my character's potty mouths always seem to do me in. ::sigh:: They're just like me. :)
Labels: lovecraftian, steampunk
