How Many People Here Are Working On Or Have Published Novels?

[Scales]

Just out of curiosity. If you have published or are working on any novels, and wouldn't mind divulging whether they're fiction or non-fiction, the title if they're published, a summary of what they are about, and whatever else, it'd be of interest.

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So far I have none published, I have a few concepts, but what I'll just list what I'm working on now since it's what's taking up my all my attention when I have the time to write/revise. I'm dedicated to finishing it and getting it published.

The one I'm working on now, is a gothic/Victorian influenced novel that takes place in a kind of mesh of past time periods.

[sass_in_the_pants]

No novels, that's a bit too ambitious for me, but a few short stories, articles and essays.

I haven't done anything for like two years now, so I'm not even sure if the stuff I published in would still be available. All of that stuff was fiction.

There was this one little thing that I did that pieces of got published in a book, that was non-fiction.

There was the Breaking of Mother Margaret. I only remember that title because the publisher changed it to something sucky. But anyway, that was a story of unrequited love. It made me kind of sad, because in the end my main character kind of ended up trapped in a rather miserable life, but come on, it's about unrequited love! That shit NEVER ends up happy!

There was a funny little story I did about the gods of Olympus. They're gods, so they can't die, but they can suffer, and that they did. See, there's no place for gods in today's society, so most were doing acts in Vegas, except for Hera, who was on a reality show called the Real Housewives of Orange County. Anyway, they all get together again at Zeus' behest and try for a power grab and they end up being sort of bumbling super heroes, but their old lives call and the super hero costumes get put away. I liked that story. That was fun to write.

There was this really fun one that I had thought COULD be turned into a novel, but like I said, that was a little ambitious. It centered around Daphne, a southern belle, who came from money, and married into even more money, and, along with the rest of her sewing circle, accidentally starts a social revolution. I was rather fond of that one, too.

And the non-fiction stuff...that was probably my favorite. I interviewed people. Just people who I knew in passing ...my professor had me get in touch with the author of a book who was a friend of his, and he ended up being able to use some of my interviews for his book. I got thanked in it! No money though. There was No Pants Lydia, she was a crack whore that lived outside of my apartment building at the time. I bribed her to talk to me by buying her menthol cigarettes. And some people I found just talked, IF you asked them the right questions. It was all about the right questions. One guy I talked to used to work for the circus, and was there when the Flying Wallendas fell from the high wire. I talked to a woman who used to smuggle liquor from Canada. I talked to a man who, after hours and hours and hours of him blathering on about nothing, I finally said 'You know, you are in excellent shape for a man in his 60s' and he said 'I swim nearly every day' and I said 'What's the farthest you've ever swam?' and he laughed and said 'Have you ever heard of the Dover Straits?' and I was like 'The ENGLISH CHANNEL? You swam across the freaking ENGLISH CHANNEL?' Indeed he did. So, yeah, I think the interviews were my favorite, though the stories aren't really mine. I just wrote them down.

[freydis]

I'm working on a novel right now, it's kind of a psychic detective/horror/mystery thing.

I also did work on another gentleman's book, I did transcription and a LOT of photoshopping.

[Scales]

Interesting.

..and I'm running out of adjectives.

I'm starting to realize how much ambition I'm gonna need... I'm thinking 4 packs of Jolt Gum and an 8 pack of Monster should write some chapters.

[Steven]

its not a novel, but a series of journals and essays starting with a miscarrige Laura had quite a few years ago and leading upward to our move to Detroit and what we've learned about life, spirituality, our roles, aour gifts and failures, etc along the way, good and bad....it's called letters from Michigan.

[Burrich1]

I published an abstract with the National Science Foundation on forest regeneration-post hurricanes in New England. That was a little over 10 years ago back when I was still in college. Not quite a novel, but I will take what I can get.

[Homicidalheathen]

No novels. 5 short stories of the sci fi/fantasy genre

[Nienna]

I have a head full of ideas and no talent for writing or art. My fiancee however is an amazing writer with 2 novels finished and a few more in the works. I'm editing one of them for submitting for publishing. It's all dar fiction / horror type stuff. Think Steven King but with a bit less sci fi to it.

[Amerist]

Well. I have Vexations.

Fundamentally I'm far more a novelist than a short story writer, but to actually get some attention in that sphere I've been working hard on creating short stories instead.

Nowadays I write mainly occult fiction, but I also have some strong ongoing urban fantasy/faerie fiction, and I've been working on a novella sized cyberpunk story -- although it is generally harder to actually sell anything longer than a short story in the current market. As a result most of my actual sales have been short stories ~3,000 words region. The longest I've sold was about 4k.

I figure that I'll just keep hitting up whatever I can with the shorts as I fix them up. I just need to get back in the groove with my health this year and into some more vicious critique salons and we'll see where life goes from there.

[Amerist]

That was weird... it went to a blank page and pretended it didn't post. This is to clear up a double-post that happened as a result.