News of the Week - Writing, Publishing, Promoting - How I Spent My Easter Vacations!
It’s been a while since I gave an update on my various workings. Shame on me. But here’s a quick one. What’s going on in the Ames-Universe?
The Transport audiobook podcast is proceeding quite nicely. Episode 13 just came out and recording / producing is fun, though the technical part is purely down to automation and handiwork these days. It wil occupy me for some weeks to come but is a nice distraction from pure writing chores.
Parallel to the podcast, The Transport also comes up chapter-by-chapter on Wattpad. A weak ploy to get more readers, however not many readers have caught on yet. Well, there’s hope.
Another Wattpad & Co project of mine has upstarted. It’s sort of a manga-fantasy-demon hunter story of a young girl destined to balance the worlds of good and evil, a quest she had to accept against her will. As this, for now, will be a pure online project, I plan to pack the story into a TV-style format. The four stories are set up episode style, full stories in their own rights with one overarching story line holding it together and investigating the girl’s challenges with her demon hunter situation. The four episodes will form season one. Let’s see what comes out of it. Idea is to publish it in all the online outlets, accompanied with some kick-ass manga graphics of a girl with a demon hunter sword. Episode 1 is near writing completion and will go to the editor, soon.
On the side, I am writing on a thriller idea I had for some time, inspired by these old-man stories that are personified by old Clint Eastwood and other senior action heroes. A mix of “Torino” and R.E.D., if you get my drift. Bob Prescott, retired, widowed, 72, housesits for his daughter in the small Florida coastal town Pelican Coast and gets drawn into the more seedy underbelly of the charming and peaceful town. It’s fun to write, as I make Bob out to be a very unapologetic guy. And an extremely, extremly ruthless guy. Pelican Coast’s underworld will have sleepless nights!