The first novel I published here, to many praises and kind comments, was "Halloween Romance". It received a whopping 171 reviews and 44 favorites. I am flattered and pleased. However, I had to delete it, because.. I GOT A PUBLISHING DEAL! (So it can't be free any more.)
After three and a half years of trying, I have landed a contract with Eternal Press. Right now they're only doing eBooks, but pretty soon they'll start doing POD, and they're thinking of slapping Halloween Romance and Bite Me together as one book. If they accept it, that will disappear from the site as well. It'll be some months before they're commercially available, but the eBook version will be all nicely polished with a cover and everything, and cost only 5. I have never asked anyone to pay me for my novels before, but I'm asking you to do so then. Only five bucks. I get 35 percent royalty of eBook, 8.5 percent of print book (which might cost 10). They want to see the rest of the Laconia series (all my current novels), so they will start vanishing from here, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" style.
They didn't ask how old I was and they didn't state an age minimum. Now I tell them how old I am, and it turns out Eternal Press' publishing of adult material means that someone my age can't work for them. In October 2008 I can resubmit. The editor who was going to edit me is still going to edit me, so the book will be all polished and ready and we don't waste any time.
I can't put "I Come to You Defenses Down" up here, because it's a script, but it recently won an Honorable Mention in Arena Stage's Young Playwright's High School 10-minute Play Contest. Anyone who wants me to send them the file can message me.
For new people, here is a list of the Laconia stories in order, along with which characters they are principally about.
1. Halloween Romance (deleted) - Ferdinand and Selene
2. Bite Me - Ferdinand, Selene, Dianne, Nat, and Matthew
3. Waking Echoes - Taylor and Derrick (in his previous life, when he was known as Riq)
4. Humans and Demons and Elves, Oh My! - Edofine, Lira, Kryvek (Edofine's cousin), and Krith
5. Dad and I Are Sort of Human - Dianne, Ferdinand, Nat, Edofine, and Lira
6. The Raw Ghosts of Thailand - Ferdinand, Nat, Taylor, Rivki (born), and Sally (minor but first introduced here)
7. The Fantasy Coup - Everybody previously mentioned, as well as new children Amaranth and Opal Jangoral, Sandi (daughter of Dianne), and Puffin (adopted son of Edofine).
8. Puffin: Private Elf Investigator - Puffin, Sandi, Ladamus, and Whyllit.
9. The Enigma Person (in-progress because it's a collaboration and my partner has a lot of stuff going on) - Charity, Puffin, Sandi, Taran, and Kris.
10. Where is Derrick Jangoral? - The Jangoral family, Nat, Jai Narai
11. Awfully Square for a Vampire - Rivki, Ferdinand, Val, Sally, Nat, Krith
12. I Come, Greymalkin (Will begin sometime this summer; will be the last of the series proper. I am considering writing a book about Pisces Jangoral to raise money for saving the environment and the oceans in particular. But first I want to do something TOTALLY different but hopefully just as awesome.) - You'll just have to find out who is going to be in it. Some are going to die.
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