Bad News x 1 + Good News x 2

Bad News

The deal to publish One Day in Gitmo Nation has fallen through. Grit City Publications have changed direction and decided to discontinue work on most of the emotobooks that were in progress, which means it's back to being a self-publisher. But that leads me on to...

Good News #1

I'm still working with the same editor and artist I was working with in the Grit City days, Rebecca Hoffman and Darcy Babines. They're two really talented people and we're going to work together to finish off the work on One Day in Gitmo Nation to rerelease it in a state that we'll all be really proud of.

Good News #2

While I was working on the re-edit of One Day in Gitmo Nation I was also working on a number of other stories based in the Gitmo Nation universe, so I have a backlog of stories. The first one that was ready to go is a short story called The Foot on the Shore.

The Foot on the Shore is the story of an old man and his dog who find a severed foot on the beach of their small home town. Once again, this story is inspired by the discussions of Adam Curry and John C Dvorak on the No Agenda show concerning the discoveries of severed feet on the shores of Western Canada and Washington state. It's available now in the Kindle store for less than a buck, so what are you waiting for?

 

The Foot on the Shore in the US Kindle store

The Foot on the Shore in the UK Kindle store

Grit City deal and a new Christmas story

Once again it's been far too long between blog posts. That means I've been up to something...

First of all, I have signed a deal with Grit City Publications to publish One Day in Gitmo Nation as an "emotobook". What's an emotobook you may ask? Well, emotobooks are either stand-alone ebooks of around 10,000 words or longer stories released in serial episodes with emotional art embedded in the story at key points of heightened emotion. I thought the structure of One Day in Gitmo Nation would make it an ideal candidate for an emotoserial and guess what? The lovely people at Grit City agreed, so I'm currently working with my editor Rebecca Hoffman to re-edit the novel for publication.

You can find out more about emotobooks here. If you're looking for a starting point, I recommend jumping in with Grit City, the first emotoserial written by Ron Gavalik, who came up with the emotobook concept.

In other news, I am also working on a short story for publication in time for Christmas called A Gitmo Nation Christmas Carol, which will also be an audiobook performed by my old friend Rynothebearded.

Stay tuned...