1. Flowers When You're Dead
For the past three weeks, I've been frantically preparing Flowers When You're Dead for ABNA (Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award). However, the submission window closed early and I was out of luck. Fortunately, I am capable of occasionally looking on the bright side of life and realized that while 10,000 manuscripts are tied up with Amazon, I can shop around for agents. SCORE! So there's that...
2. The Adventures of Chubby Monkey
I'm developing a children's television series for Amazon Studios titled "The Adventures of Chubby Monkey." The premise is that a stuffed monkey is brought to life by TSSF (The Super Secret Formula) and proceeds to have many zany adventures. I'm aiming for a synthesis of Charlie the Unicorn and Freddie of The Golden Hamster Saga (i.e. utilize the serious MC + two comedic companions formula). More on this later once I've knocked out the mini-bible and pilot script.
3. Don't Let The Sun Fool You
I'm turning twenty around the end of March. Naturally, I want to publish as many things as possible while I'm in my teens because it sounds super impressive and is something I can brag about for years to come. (I published three books before I turned twenty! I'm so epic and kewl! You're reading this in Eric Cartman's voice!) My original plan was to publish a 10K short story akin to Creation titled Noise instead, but nah. I like a challenge. I'm 40K into Don't Let The Sun Fool You and am aiming for 70-80K. Eugenics and megaplexes and horror oh my!
I also graduated with my undergraduate degree in December, which was a surreal experience. It feels so weird to be slobbing around doing whatever while everyone else is sitting in class. Let's just say I'm going to enjoy the hell out of these next eight months.
What are you guys up to? Any luck with agents? New projects? Failing projects? Funny jokes? C'mon, you've got to have SOMETHING for me.
On that note, this review gives me all sorts of happy:
You have been busy! Wow! Congratz on graduationg and I hope all of your publishing plans work out well! Can't wait until your a household name and I can nonchalantly name-drop you in every other conversation.
ReplyDeleteAs for me, I've been busy with school, Confirmation, graduation(eighth grade, whoo high school!) volleyball, writing contests, andof course, UBC(We WILL have a say in the MR movie adaption)! All of that good and socompletelydepressioninducinglyhorriblyblahingly stuff.
Are you going to enter the W&W contest on Figment? You should! If you do, best of luck. (Also: hang in there!)
DeleteWow congratulations on graduating when you're 19-20! Good luck with the publishing =) I'm about to finish my undergraduate degree and I'm 22 =/ I have a collection of short stories that I'm working on right now (3 done, 7 to go) that I hope to publish in the near future in some form (hopefully)! Besides that, I have a list of full novels to finish writing!
ReplyDeleteIsn't the "novel to-write" list maddening? I feel so guilty about not being able to get to them all! Anyway, best of luck on those short stories. Let me know if you need a beta reader.
DeleteThank you =) It is a bit overwhelming so yeah I agree with you, but I can't stop thinking up new ideas. Each day when I walk outside to go to class, I usually get a new idea (that is seemingly unrelated to the stories that I am currently working on). I'll be sure to ask you for a beta reader if you don't mind in the near future =)
DeletePublishing young does feel nice, doesn't it? I did that too, and then realized that what I put out was just rushed. Now I'm frantically trying to redo it one last time before April 5th (one year from the day I published it last time).
ReplyDeleteCongrats on getting a really positive review, by the way! I was also thinking about taking a look at Creation some time soon... once I get through a good part of my book pile, that is.
I did the same thing with my first book, Darkness Surrounding. The experience was great, but the book just wasn't ready (and neither was I). If you do get around to reading Creation, I hope you'll enjoy it. Best of luck with the redo!
DeleteWow!! Sounds amazing Kat :) Best of luck with all of your projects and can't wait to hear how they turn out :)
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how amazing you are with publishing ... I am SO happy and SO proud of you! Keep on kicking butt. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm happy for you! Making Children's shows must be fun. Believe it or not, with my Global Experience Classes(for super smart people like me, bleh!), i've managed to still be able to follow your blog and Cassandra Clare's(my two favorite authors). Just wait 'till i get AP biology next year! I will never have a free weekend XD
ReplyDeleteDLTSFY is going on my reading list. My mission, and i choose to accept it, is to read every dystopian, futuristic, eugenics, mutants novel available. Just finished F451 and i'm currently reading Brave New World,too.
I'd love to have a chance to do more fanart for your books. Hehe. When i'm not writing, i'm reading, when i'm not reading i'm studying, when i'm not studying, i'm drawing manga. If you have any dystooian suggestions? I'd love to read them!