Updates and NaNoWriMo and Cannibals

I've discovered a correlation between movies that come out in the month of October and what I decide to write for my NaNoWriMo project.

Mama was scheduled to come out out last October, and that year for NaNo I wrote Enculturation, which followed Janie Brooks, a rehabilitated feral child and her little pack.

We Are What We Are came out this past month, and I quickly became wildly obsessed (just ask my exasperated roommates).

So of course I had to incorporate cannibalism in my NaNo, and since I'm in an Evolution of Warfare class this semester with all the NROTC kids, I just sort of tossed cannibals and marines into the blender and added a dash of post-apocalypse-but-all-the-adults-are-dead and ran with it.  It has the potential to become a hot mess, but right now we're going steady.

In other news, I ran another pass of the cover art and manuscript past the Dog Ear Publishing and even though Dog Ear stopped sending me confirmation emails, they are probably working on it and will suddenly surprise me with the revisions soon.

TTFN

M.K. Wissler

At this point in the road...

I've finally edited and re-edited and submitted all of the necessary files for Dog Ear Publishing.  My good friend finally finished the cover art, and it looks gorgeous.  The timeline expectation says that the interior will be formatted for review by July 18th, so now I just sit back and relax.

And write an entirely new book.

I forgot that I had a coupon for five free books from CreateSpace since I won NaNoWriMo this year and since it expires on June 30th, I decided that I needed to use it.  I didn't want to use it for another edition of Oxlerran-related material, and so on June 12th, I started piecing together bits of another project.

Today, I finished an entire book.

It's the fastest I've ever completed a project and this shows that I will indeed be productive if promised free things.

This is The Mariner and the Angelfish and it is a step away from Oxlerran, since it involves magic and is set in present day.  The best thing about writing present day fiction is that you can make all of the pop culture references your heart desires.  It's currently being reviewed by CreateSpace, and then it will be authorized and printed and I'll have five copies!  Very exciting.

TTFN

M.K. Wissler

Publishing and New Stories

It's official!  We've set up an account at Dog Ear Press, and all I have to do is to send in my files.  I'm currently stressing over how to write about myself.  You'd think I'd be good at that, after college applications, but it's hard for me.  After the files are sent, the next step will be me reviewing the interior in about 12 weeks.  It's going to be a long road, but I hope it will be 100% worth it.

The sequel is panning out fantastically; after extreme cuts in December (post NaNo), I'm back up to 50k words as of last weekend, and things are heating up.  However, the stories of Oxlerran have been ignored a little in favor of three other possible novels.  The premises, in order of how much they interest me, are 1700s pirates, feral wolf children, and Greek warriors.

Whatever will happen with them will hopefully be posted on the blog, although I seem to forget this blog in favor of just writing the stories and then posting every other fifth month.

TTFN

M.K. Wissler

P.S. Did you hear that the Office of Letter and Light is retiring the Script Frenzy activity?  I was terrible at screenwriting, but I always wrote a novel during that month.