huntersseries:

It’s happening now!  We have received the OK and we can now start to reveal our cover to everyone!  

From now until Sept 28th, we’ll be sharing snippets of the front cover of our book for everyone to see.  The final full cover will be shared on the 28th!

Please join us and follow along, this is so exciting and we can’t wait to share this with everyone!!

(We’re also hosting the reveal on facebook as well!)

Necessary reblog is necessary.  Cover to my next book will be revealed this Saturday.  Please join the Facebook event for extra goodies throughout the week, or join the Hunters tumblr  :)

brichibiwritesthings:

huntersseries:

Another piece of art we got from Meta con 2013. 

This piece was done by the awesome munny artist at the table next to us http://arc-onic.deviantart.com/

The hunter watched as the shadows pulled back like a receding wave of dark black. A figure stepped out of the shadows, the waves parting for him like a curtain. Its feet were silent against the uneven concrete, gently touching the floor like a trained dancer. It was tall and skinny, the type of thinness that reminded Alix of news reports of war torn countries where the people looked like they never ate. Despite its malnourished appearance no bones showed through his skin, but the texture of its flesh almost looked like a frozen liquid, small ripples flowing down its arms and chest. Its skin was a color similar to runny ink pens, the black seeming to bleed into the concrete. Its eyes were hollow, missing pupils, and deep like endless black holes that made Alix wonder how the creature could see in front of him. 

In contrast to its creepy, elongated features two large ears flapped down around its head, giving the creature a strange resemblance of a playful puppy, something that could be trusted — but Alix knew better. To think that creatures like this shadow dog — the closest thing that Alix could associate the demon with — sparked nightmarish stories of demons and other religious fodder was laughable. What stood in front of him now certainly didn’t look like the demons the rest of the human world was so familiar with. In fact, there was a good portion of them that probably would have thought that this inhuman thing was, dare he say, cute, something to keep as a pet and make do tricks for spoiled little children.

Alix was disgusted by the thought.

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Meet Dox, one of the creatures from “Seeking the Storyteller.” This first upcoming book is part of the “Hunters” series by myself and my wifey.

More book stuff!  Get excited, it’s coming soon!

brichibiwritesthings:

So my wifey has come up with a rather interesting way to get people excited for our books: write little side stories to them.  The side stories let you get to know the characters before the release of the book and serve as little prequels to the book.  These side stories are FREE TO READ, and will be posted on our writing blogs and whatnot.  Perhaps someday we’ll look at getting them available for e-readers?  

“Double Hue,” is an upcoming supernatural gay romance thriller I have coming out.  It’s set for November.  However, before November comes, you can read these stories about the characters in the book.  Gable Peterson is the lead character and has been with his boyfriend, Avery Blair, for 4 years.  One day, Gable gets devastating news that Avery is dead.  Unbeknownst to Gable, he has a unique ability where he can go back in time.  He’s able to go back to the beginning of the week and try and prevent Avery’s death from happening.

Of course, it’s never that easy.

Before the thriller is released, check out this first of (hopefully) several side stories.  ”First Date” is the story of Gable and Avery’s first date, and how they started at a couple.  They’re both college students at the U of M, and Avery has a tendency to fall asleep in class ^^

Warnings for this part:  Semi NSFW, M/M romance

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A prequel/teaser to my upcoming book “Double Hue.”  I will be writing these little teasers that lead up to the book, which should be released in November.  These are free to read and will just be posted here (my publisher liked this idea a lot so I’m going for it ^^)

If you can think of other places where I can post this to get people excited for the book release, let me know  :)  I’ve thought of “Fiction Press” so far, since they do original fiction.

As always, check out my writing on my writing blog AND my Facebook author page.  Actually website coming soon  :)

snowtigra:

huntersseries:

What’s a Scough?

The Scough are a group of demons that show up in the Hunters series which resemble a mix of humans and foxes.  Many have fox style ears with fur that goes from the top of their head, down their backs, and ends in tails.  Their colors range from white (like arctic foxes) to red, to brown and black and grey.  

They tend to live in the forest, preferring to be surrounded by trees and nature and don’t build permanent structures.  Instead they sleep in nests made of leaves and branches and moss, curling together in family groups for warmth.  Due to their low numbers they prefer to stay out of conflict and avoid the other species and groups in the demon world.  

This, of course, makes them a perfect place for a Storyteller to hide.  Or rather, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

A bit of information from our book coming out before the end of the year. 

Pass the word.  Our book is due out at the end of the year.  Here’s an inside look at one of the creatures  :)

brichibiwritesthings:

huntersseries:

I was going through my writing groups today and stumbled upon someone asking how a fanfiction of a popular book managed to get published and why people would either bother writing fanfiction in the first place. 

The responses on the thread ranged from curiosity to unbridled hatred of the ‘crap’ and ‘horrendous quality’ of fanfiction out there.  No one defended fanfiction on the post and it bothered me.  A lot.

I love fanfiction, and seriously, honestly, can I just put out there that it’s not the end of the world if you write fanfiction? You are not cheating!  In fact, fanfiction can help you practice and can be used as a tool to become a better writer.

Seriously, hear me out.

1. Fanfiction can help you write. You’ve joined a fanfiction community, you start writing and nearly all communities have ‘review’ functions.  There’s a ready made option for people to read your work and critique it.  Even the little comments help, even with no substance.  They build thick skins, they may you think and they make you consider how to draw an audience and more reviews.  You can only pass your story to so many friends, but posting it on the internet for all to see, opens the door to anon critiques that can improve your writing.

2. Fanfiction can help you write characters.  The show/book/movie/fandom gives you set characters and the point is to remain ‘in character’ or true to who those characters are.  That’s a challenge!  Because the minute that Captain Kirk, or Sherlock or Bilbo acts differently readers will call you out.  It forces you to think about the character - or ignore them and justify why you did what you did.

3. Fanfiction can help you create your own characters.  Mary Sues and Gary Stews are the horrible horrible things about the fandom right?  Putting your own original characters into a story is the way you’re not supposed to go.  But step back and realize that the Mary Sue is a practice of putting your character on stage with the others.  They are ‘horrible’ because they aren’t as well thought out.  Putting them with the other characters can force you to add more detail, to flesh them out and make them fit in.  Sure the critics are mean, but that too is helpful.  It’s very easy to learn from your ‘Mary Sue’ and develop her until she fits in and is accepted as a simple “OC” (or original character).

4. Fanfiction can help you create a world and give it a test run.  Creating a whole universe for your characters is hard and it takes a lot of work.  However coming up with a plot and universe and putting fanfiction characters in it as an AU (Alternate Universe) can be a way to give that universe a test run and make sure it works.  You want a world where characters deal with war and death?  Sure, use fanfiction to take characters you know really well (after all you watch them every week) and make them deal with that world.  You want to explore sexual fantasies that you yourself might not be willing to try?  Fanfiction lets you do that and it lets you expand your horizons.  This lets you learn about that world and test it out.  So the next time you create a universe it’s better and better.

5. Fanfiction can help you build self confidence.  There is nothing scarier to a introverted teenager then putting themselves in the front of a room and expressing a new idea that’s their baby.  Believe me, I know.  But fanfiction lets you do this, from a safe area.  Your original idea is couched between well known characters and ideas and can be handed out to the internet as a whole or a couple select fans.  This lets you hand your idea out and get feedback.  Done enough times and survived through enough ‘flames’ and ‘trolls’, you can come out the other end confident in your ideas and your ability to express them.  This can give you the confidence to stand in front of people and present your original work for others to see how good it can be, without you even realizing it.

6. Fanfiction can help you network.  In the publishing world, you have to send off your stories to thousands of people and hope someone likes it.  You need to edit and you need to sell yourself.  Fanfiction presents you with a world of feedback (reviews), editors (beta readers) and fans across the world that couldn’t be more readily available.  Use this to your advantage.  Seriously, it can become a secure support for jumping into the world of original fiction and sometimes, that’s what you need to get your story right, especially if it’s not readily available next door or down the street.

I know there are other good things about fanfiction, but these are the ones that meant the most to me.  These are the ones that have helped me get to this point and I’m not ashamed of it.  

I am not saying that all fanfiction is good.  Just as not all first drafts are gold.  But they are stepping stones and they can be used to create better things or they can be amazing on their own.  

Do not judge the entire subject by a single book that got just a bit more attention then the rest.  Fanfiction isn’t evil, it isn’t stealing and it isn’t crap.  There are fanfictions out there that are better then some of the best published works and there are plenty of writers who started in fanfiction, whether they admit it or not. 

I admit it.  I started in fanfiction.  And it made me the writer I am today.  I am proud of that fact, thank you very much.

Let’s be honest with ourselves.  At some point, in our lives, we’ve written a fanfic, or pretended to be in someone else’s universe.  We’ve played pretend, or wondered, “What if this happened at the end of the movie/TV show/anime/video game/comic/whatever instead?”  There’s this stereotype with fanfiction being terrible, or, “Ugh 50 Shades was a fanfic,” and suddenly it’s this terrible thing.  

People don’t seem to realize what fanfiction does for writers.  If it weren’t for fanfiction, I wouldn’t be where I am today.  Fanfiction kept me writing when I stopped.  Fanfiction kept me writing when I thought I couldn’t get anywhere with writing.  Fanfiction showed me that my “hobby” could actually be a “career.”  The writing degree and the classes helped, but fanfiction helped too.  I’m not ever, ever going to deny that.  I treated it like practice, be it keeping characters in character, trying to write their motivations, trying to flesh out the AUs or even the canon universes in ways that the series didn’t.  Not only did writing fanfiction help, but reading it helped, too.  Seeing other people’s writing styles, leaving reviews, talking to the writers, all of that is part of the writing community.

It kills me when people treat fanfiction like this terrible thing.  I, for one, wait for the day when one of my books has a fandom, has people writing fanfiction, or drawing fanart, or cosplaying, or whatever.  Is there bad fanfiction out there?  Of course.  Just like bad movies, or bad video games, or bad books, it’s part of the community.  Does that mean every aspect of that community is bad?  No, of course it doesn’t.  Not every book you read is good, hell, not every book by the same author is good, and not every book in the same series of books is good.  But do you bash books in general?  No. 

And let’s talk about the reviews you get.  Nothing prepares you for the reviews your book will get like fanfiction.  You get a wide variety of reviews, from one sentence, to paragraphs, to pages, and not all of them are good.  They prepare you for the good and the bad, but especially the bad.  Sometimes you get that “ugh why is this character gay” review, and sometimes you get that review even with the 700 warnings of, “gay characters ahead, don’t read if you don’t like.”  Other times, they’re well thought out negative reviews that actually help you improve your next fic, and the next one, and the next one.  There’s no way I’d be prepared for the “not everyone will like your book” road without fanfiction and the reviews I’d receive.    

Everything starts from something.  Everything is inspired by something. There’s nothing wrong with that.  You see people say it all the time.  ”I use to read/watch this thing, and it inspired me.”  ”I created this character because I was inspired by this.”  ”This is based on this.” Fanfiction is no different to me.  Fanfiction means that I’m so invested in a character or series that I feel the need to write more for them, beyond what the creator has done.  To be able to inspire people in such a way with my writing is a dream.  That means they’re still thinking about your book, or movie, or whatever you create.  That means it’s still on their mind.  The reason why Persona 4 is still popular for being a game from back in 2008 is because we still love the characters, we still want to continue their story, we still want to take that journey with them.  The reason why Night Vale has taken off so quickly is because the fandom took to it.  Once upon a time, CLAMP was a group of doujinshi artists, drawing comics from other series.  Now they have a bunch of series of their own that people love. The reason why Free: Iwatobi Swim Club even EXISTS is because fans clung to that 30 second promo video.  Had they made that promo and we hadn’t given a shit, it wouldn’t be going right now.  Had the fans not taken to Harley Quinn in Batman: the Animated Series, she would’ve just been a random Joker henchwoman.  That’s it.  It’s because of fans that she has her own comics, her own following, be in the video games, none of that would’ve happened without fans.

Without fans, your story will never live on.

And that is what we, as writers, want.

And if my creation inspires someone else’s creation, by all means.  Let the creativity flow from person to person.  If I ever go to a con and see fanart or cosplay from one of my books I will absolutely die of happiness. If the series my partner and I are creating ever has a section on ff.net, or any other fanfiction place, that means that our books have left that much of an impact.  Do I want to write?  Yes.  But I also want my books to mean something to people.  I want them to mean so much to people that, 5 years later, there’s STILL a fandom for them.  People are still talking about my characters, or a scene, or anything I wrote.  

Fanfiction means that this has happened, and there’s nothing wrong with that.  Fanfiction is not garbage, it’s not a cop out, it’s a part of the writing community.  Don’t ever be discouraged because you write fanfiction, or use to write fanfiction, or anything like that.  Ever.  

The part where I encourage fanfiction, because it’s important to the writing community.  

imaginenightvale:

Imagine, if you will, Carlos’ first week in Night Vale.  He doesn’t have much time for entertainment, such as watching T.V. or tuning into the radio show that he’s heard others talking about — including his colleagues.  He’s too busy trying to settle in.  

But.

As he wanders around town, going to the grocery store, to the bank, and other such places he can’t help but hear the whispers.  ”So that must be Carlos.”  ”Oh my, he really is perfect.”  ”Why did Telly cut his hair?”  Carlos is confused, but he shrugs it off.  The little town is weird, so these whispers could mean anything.  But even his coworkers are talking about him. “Beautiful, perfect Carlos,” giggle snort.  So, finally, he asks them what’s going on.  They tell him about Cecil’s radio show and how he goes on and on about him.  

So Carlos goes home and tunes in, and he’s surprised to hear such a low, enticing voice complimenting him in every sentence.  He wonders if he should be a touch bit creeped out since he’s never met this Cecil person, but a much larger part of him feels flattered.  

From that day forward, he walks around Night Vale with a smile, telling people that he is, indeed, the beautiful Carlos. Someday, he’ll call into the station and talk with Cecil, or go visit him, but for now he’s content with that smooth, wonderful voice that calls him perfect.  

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For more writing ramblings check out my writing tumblr  ^^

More Night Vale headcanons because I can’t stop.  At all.  I mean I tried honest but I just have to write them.  Because Carlos, man.  Perfect Carlos.  And Cecil.  And how the heck did it get so many notes so quickly?!   

brichibiwritesthings:

Hey everyone!  I recently did an interview about my current book, upcoming books, and general geekiness that is me  :)  Check it out!

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Author’s website showcasing her writing works

Good morning, everyone.  My partner in crime has posted the first chapter to our upcoming book, “Hunters: Seeking the Storyteller,” on her website.  Follow the link to check it out.  Keep in mind that its not edited yet (that should be in September) but this will give you a feel for the book  :)

Check it out, everyone!  It’s a preview to another book I have coming out.  If you want more up to date details this book actually has a tumblr here.  Happy reading!

brichibiwritesthings:

Hey guys remember that time I wrote a short story for a gay romance anthology? I don’t mean to forget, honest, but with “Treat Me Kindly” and now “Double Hue” and soon “Hunters: Seeking the Storyteller” I forget to mention this little tidbit. So here’s a fun text message between the two main characters about video games and such (after the events of the story). Also, you can get a copy of the ebook for only $3, so if you’re into gay romance, or video games, or really really like me, feel free to check it out

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Hey so since I have like, a bunch of new followers, I should do that whole, “Hey I’m a published author check out my books,” thing.  So yeah… I’m a published author and you should check out my books.  That’s my author pic where, you know, I actually wear make up for something other than cosplay and am not holding a frog  ^^  You can follow my writerly adventures here:

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