It’s all coming together now. Here’s my bio on Damnation Books’ website for my first book, “Treat Me Kindly.” You can see my super derpy girl face, whoo!
Der hey guys I am teh authorz *__*
Hey everyone, check it out! This is the publisher that my first book is being released through. Check out the “Upcoming Releases” section, you’ll find my book there!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Big news from the writing blog, check it out!
Headcanon: Homecoming
Wow I actually have a headcanon idea holy snap! It must be all of the Kanji and Naoto I saw at ACEN :)
Warnings: Pissy Naoto, amused Kanji, slightly NSFW, post P4 Arena
Summary: In which a detective has been away from her boyfriend for a while and wants some alone time, but keeps getting Kanji blocked.
Hey look I wrote a thing! Be sure to keep up with the writing blog to see more writing things :)
By the way my own personal blog almost has 300 followers @.@ My writing blog has 79 though and needs more loves, so go loves it!
Someone came to our table at ACEN and told me that they read my headcanons for Kanji and Naoto on their way to school and that they love them and that they were so happy to meet me. Oh man, I hope I wasn’t too derpy in person, but I probably was ^^;;;
Here’s a list of some headcanons, not ALL of them since I have to update it at some point when I’m not running around about cons and books and stuff, but here you go :) There’s been so many kannao shippers at ACEN like, it warms my heart, maybe I should go back to writing them… be sure to stay tuned to my writing blog.
So I’ve been trying to get something in a Dreamspinner Anthology for a while. Last year, nothing made it, but this year I saw that they were doing a sports anthology. I thought, “I’m gonna write about video games,” because… I’m a geek.
And holy shit it worked.
So I’m reposting this because it comes out in a month and my video game short story will be in it! It’s a tale of gay romance, video game stereotypes and the people who happily turn them upside down. It’s got all sorts of fun video game references, because video gaming is a sport, right? You can either get the entire anthology, or buy the stories individually in June. Mine is called “Press START to Play.”
Below is a story description and a small snippet where I make mention of
my obsessiona game series I like ^^Description: Lukis Singleton’s once-popular sports column is fading fast, thanks to the terrible track record of the local football team. In an attempt to save the column, Lukis’s editor, John, decides that he needs to go in a different direction. Video games are all the rage these days, so John insists that sending Lukis to a huge video-game tournament in Los Angeles will shake up his current readers and bring in new ones. Lukis isn’t thrilled about reporting of games with impossible powers or gamers who still live in Mon’s basement, but then he meets a tempting flaw in the game stereotypes of unwashed man-children. Aaron Sanders is a gorgeous breath of fresh air at the tournament who takes Lukis’s less-than-stellar view of gamers and turns it on its head, leaving Lukis to wonder if if might be worth being Aaron’s player two.
Snippet:
Lukis wonders, as he watches the intro video, why high school students are even allowed to fight with swords and strange monsters that they can summon. Don’t they have parents? And since when can bears talk, fight, and smoke cigars? Was that a robot just now? With an axe?
“Told ya it was completely different,” Aaron says, picking some kid who uses a gun and has some sort of fly as a monster friend.
It’s still exciting to watch, he thinks. Aaron’s character is fighting against some tall, buff guy who uses a folding chair as a weapon, it makes no sense at all; who brings a chair to a gunfight?
***
Yes I made a kannao reference in something I’m getting published. I realize I have a problem. No I do not wish to seek help thanks though.
In which my OTP makes an appearance in my original writing. Yeah.
The dorkiest love story ever told (or how Hunters came to be)
Back when I was to college, I was part of a Gundam Wing yaoi mailing list for Heero Yuy and Duo Maxwell (1x2x1 ML forever!) On that mailing list was a girl who called herself snowtigra. We started chatting over IRC (yeah this is how long ago this was) and ended up doing a fic together that was a terrible Resident Evil/Gundam Wing crossover that’s still on the internet somewhere, I’m sure.
Anyhow, long story short, we’re still together after 11 years somehow.
One day, while chatting over IRC, we started roleplaying with anime characters. They came from all sorts of series, from Gundam Wing, to Yu Yu Hakusho, and we just… kept doing it. We started calling it “dating.” She lived in Minnesota and I was in Iowa for school, so we were long distance, but every night we’d get online and “date.” This involved coming up with random plots for these characters, and as we got into more anime series and video games, more characters would show up. Like, “Hey, Gaara is really cool, we should put him somewhere,” or, “I’m really obsessed with Kanji and Naoto right now,” or, “Sebastian and Ciel, please.”
When I moved up to Minnesota, we got an apartment together. One day, after she picked me up from work, we found out that our apartment had been broken into. This included our laptops, which had the file on it we used to roleplay. So, we had to start all over again.
That’s when things changed.
Suddenly characters were changing. For example, we would think, “This would be awesome if it were a female lead,” and so boy characters changed to girl characters. Then we came up with the concept of “The Storyteller,” a creature who lives in a library full of books, each book depicting someone’s life. At some point we realized, you know, these Naruto characters aren’t really the same anymore. We sort of… created our own characters. Like we were still using the name “Haku” but it wasn’t really the same person.
Then, about two years ago, she randomly wrote up a teaser chapter. The characters were renamed, no more Ky Kiske or Gaara, no more heartless or Netherworld, because those things weren’t those things anymore. Then I added a bit to it. Then we sat down and made an outline. The outline ended up creating seven book ideas. She wrote the first one for NaNoWriMo two years ago, then I read over it and added things/took things out and jazzed it up.
We realized, “Fuck… we have a story here.” So she sent it to publishers.
Now we’re signing a contract with Alpha Wolf Publishing.
And thus became the dorkiest love story ever told. The Hunters series started with us being in a long distance relationship where we would roleplay every night to talk to one another.
To all of you roleplayers, fanfic writers, fan artists, and all that’s in between, here is my message to you. Keep doing what you do. Because you never know what it will turn into. This is what it did for me.
Oh, and “Treat Me Kindly,” the book I’ve written on my own? Use to be a Naruto fic that I never finished. After dissecting the fic I kept the first sentence, one of the original characters I created, and two of the animals.
Reblogging because not all of you follow my writing blog, but I wanted to share :)
Another contract offer!!!
So I haven’t updated the blog with the joint story I have with my partner for a while, but I think it might be time to. We just got a contract offer for that story! This means I’ll potentially have two published books out instead of just one!
Here’s the link to the blog about that story, if you’re interested in following it. Such wonderful news to receive so early in the morning!
GUYS OMG OMG OMG GUYS!!! Big news from the writing blog. KYAAAAAAAH!!!
“Treat Me Kindly” first round edits
In the process of editing the book, hoping to have it done early next week EVEN WITH DETOUR BEING THIS WEEKEND! Yep. I’m crazy. I know.
But I’m in the second chapter already, that’s good right? Here’s my favorite quote so far from Alex, the main character, to his friend Nicholas in regards to them ever having a chance at dating:
“Nick-Nack I’ve told you that if you grow breasts and stop standing in line at midnight for hard to pronounce video games I’ll give you a shot.”
We’re in the first round of book edits! Follow the blog for more information :)
Here it is! The pre-sale for the anthology I wrote for is now up! Follow the link for prices on the entire anthology and/or the individual stories. Yay!
To celebrate, here’s a fun snippet:
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This next game, Lukis realizes, is a rather strange one. He doesn’t bother trying to play. Instead, he watches as Aaron fights against someone else. Lukis wonders, as he watches the intro video, why high school students are even allowed to fight with swords and strange monsters that they summon. Don’t they have parents? And since when can bears talk, fight, and smoke cigars? Was that a robot just now? With an axe?
“Told ya it was completely different,” Aaron says, picking some kid that uses a gun and has some sort of fly as a monster friend.
It’s still exciting to watch, Lukis thinks. Aaron’s fighting against some tall, buff guy who uses a folding chair as a weapon — that makes no sense, either, who brings a chair to a gun fight?
***
Follow the link to see how you can get a hold of this story and others :)
YAY!
Hey everyone, check it out! This is for the short story I wrote in Dreamspinner Press’ upcoming sports anthology. It’ll go on pre-sale next week, so I’ve been given permission to share the cover image and the story blurb.
Lukis Singleton’s once-popular sports column is fading fast, thanks to the terrible track record of the local football team. In an attempt to save the column, Lukis’s editor, John, decides he needs to go in a different direction. Video games are all the rage these days, so John insists that sending Lukis to a huge video-game tournament in Los Angeles will shake up his current readers and bring in new ones. Lukis isn’t thrilled about reporting on games with impossible powers or gamers who still live in Mom’s basement, but then he meets a tempting flaw in the gaming stereotypes of unwashed man-children. Aaron Sanders is a gorgeous breath of fresh air at the tournament who takes Lukis’s less-than-stellar view of gamers and turns it on its head, leaving Lukis to wonder if it might be worth being Aaron’s player two.
It was a ton of fun writing this. There are quite a few geeky nods all throughout the story, from Marvel vs. Capcom, to Street Fighter, and even some Persona 4 Arena. Fighting games are one of my favorite video game genres, so as soon as I saw “sports theme” I thought “fighting game tournament.”Lukis is the naysayer, the “games are stupid” character. But Aaron is all “games are awesome” and breaks all of Lukis’ stereotypes since he’s attractive and social. The main point of this story is to show that us gamers aren’t just a bunch of anti-social children who can’t function, who still live with mom, and who waste their lives with a controller in their hand. There’s so much more to video games, especially in this day and age, and on top of the gay romance is the theme of, “Don’t make assumptions about people because of what they do. Don’t make assumptions about something until you try it yourself.”
I’ll post a link when the pre-sales start. Until then, enjoy this snippet :)
On top of my book “Treat Me Kindly,” there’s a short story coming soon! Remember to follow my writing blog for up-to-date information :) And yeah, Persona 4 fans you read that write, there’s a nod to the game in the story along with a bunch of other fighting games ^^ I just couldn’t hep myself!
