Another Kairo short story, River of the Blue Carmina, has been published in the latest Weirdbook Magazine #49. Purchase your copy now to read the story.
NEWS! River of the Blue Carmina
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Larkwynn and Ravenblack
The start of another quarter crept up behind me with the point of a blade to my throat, telling me to complete what I have begun. I do my best to comply. I have reached close to the middle point of the dark fantasy novel I am writing.
I don’t like to talk about what I’m writing during the process, but I will divulge a bit. When I created the world for my story, I came up with the name Atios for it. However, by the time I had reached around the fourth chapter, I found that name had been used by someone else. Searching the web, it was difficult to tell how known Atios was to others, but in my despair, I felt the need to change it anyway. My replacement was the name Larkwynn. This time it is chiseled into stone, no matter what may come.
I received the proofs for my Kairo short story River of the Blue Carmina for Weirdbook Magazine #49. Look for it to be on virtual news stands soon.
Lastly, I recently discovered a murder of goth and goth adjacent bands that are now in heavy listening rotation (lest I give the wrong impression, I’m pretty goth adjacent myself, with a dark leathery wing overlap). The favorite discovery is probably Mono Inc. from Germany. Their album Ravenblack is simply delicious, and they have a new album coming out this year. Sirenia and Ancient Myth are great more metal sounding bands. Rounding out the parade are darkwave bands Feyleux, The Birthday Massacre and Harsh Symmetry.
May your all April showers bring melancholy gray clouds and black eyeliner tears.
NEWS! Lady in Black
Another Kairo story has been printed in the new Anthology, A Fistful of Demons. Available now on Amazon Kindle and soon Paperback. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B7ZK434X/ref=x_gr_bb_kindle?caller=Goodreads&tag=x_gr_bb_kindle-20
State of the Writer Address
I’m really not very good at this blogging thing. It appears that my last post was in October. My apologies.
I started the Monster 50 in hopes that it would inspire me to post with more regularity. It has, and has not, done so. I fully intend to complete this endeavor with only 19 left to go.
Progress on the new novel has been going slow (surprise). I intend to pick up the pace, with hopes of completing, and publishing it by the end of the year. This is what I am calling my Eighties novel. It is set in the Eighties, includes lots of monsters, music and mayhem, all around Halloween time. The story features multiple characters, including a former scream queen now disk jockey, a South Korean movie martial artist, an elderly rockabilly musician in a nursing home, and a young boy with a seemingly dark curse and love for dark music. It is based on an idea that I have had germinating for a long time. Can’t wait to unfurl it on the world.
I have been creating a campaign for the Numenera RPG, and just started running it as GM for a small group. Running an RPG is a great workout for my writer’s brain. Creating NPCs, plot hooks, and story lines, improvising on the fly when needed, really get the creative juices flowing. I am having fun with it now, but hope it doesn’t encroach on my novel writing too much.
As previously mentioned on Twitter, I have sold two more Kairo short stories. River of the Blue Carmina will be in Weirdbook Magazine #48, and A Nightly Hanging will appear in #50. I have also finished another Kairo story that needs a home, as Weirdbook is booked out through 2021.
That’s it for now. Catch you later.
ELECTRIC DARKNESS 