Two of my favorite things all rolled into one cute little 7 month old package? Yes please!
Oh hi! *waves frantically from Babyland*
So it's been a while...and um, you totally deserve an update. Because, well...I miss you guys! But I'm having so much fun with Mini Monster, the time has just flown by and now she's almost 8 months old! And it's been forever and ages since I've blogged!
So here is my fun semi-annoying probably-only-cute-to-me anecdote for the day:
Mini Monster is finally "crawling". But she looks like a zombie crawling from its grave when she does. She pulls herself along with her left elbow, belly on the floor, and then propels herself forward by slapping her right hand on the floor. Her legs are two completely lifeless lumps, dragging behind her. So it sounds kinda like this:
Swish, slap, draaaag....Swish, slap, draaaag....Swish, slap, draaaag....
All the while she's going, "eh?" "eh?" "eh?"
Hence the Canadian Zombie Baby. I can totally hear her coming from the other room even if she's not "talking".
Imagine yourself doing dishes at the sink, the baby happily playing in the living room. Or so you think. Suddenly it gets real quiet in the house. You pause, turn off the water and cock your head. Did you hear something?
Swish, slap, draaaag...
Must be your imagination. Just as you are about to turn the water back on, there it is again!
Swish, slap, draaaag...Swish, slap, draaaag...Swish, slap, draaaag...
You turn around and-
EEEEE! It's the Canadian Zombie Baby coming to munch on your feet! NOM NOM NOM!
"Eh?" she asks all sweetly while looking up at me, drool dribbling down her chin.
...Or is it blood?
Oh you can't fool me, Canadian Zombie Baby, I know what you're really here for...
"Eh?"
Anywho, I think I may be spending a little too much time with babies, talking to myself in my head.
But my days aren't filled with just Canadian Zombie Babies. I have gone back to work at the library, and am also deep in the query trenches with my current YA fantasy (having a baby kinda delays things a little). Plus I'm working on my WIP, another YA fantasy, but with more juicy bits of romance. About 35k into that. Oh and Little Monster's competition gymnastics season has started, so our days have been filled with hours of practice and traveling to meets on the weekends. Oh and she's like, 7 1/2 now which is short for Justin Bieber's GF. (I swear I wasn't into stuff like that till I was like, 20...but whatevs.)
But enough about me and my Monsters! What about you?? What have you been up to while I've been going baby and query crazy?
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Sneak Peak At My New Novel!
So, in honor of Teen Read Week going on right now, I thought I'd tell you about my Vampire Zombie Emo Steampunk Fantasy Novel. VZESFN for short. It's truly a labor of love, and I can't tell you the trials and tribulations I've gone through to write the perfect "hot" novel right now.
This is an epic love story between a Zombie named Zelda and a Vampire named Victor, set in Victorian England. They use steam-powered jet packs to travel around since the streets are teeming with hungry, lusty vampires and zombies who want to drink their blood and eat their brains (and totally make out with them any chance they get). They are of course, angst-ridden teens whose only goal in life is to listen to sad music and die their hair black. Zelda and Victor meet in an interesting turn of events, when all the adult vampires and zombies banish the teens to a desolate, bomb-ridden, nuclear wasteland because they are just too angsty and dramatic all the time. The teens must fight for their lives, whilst fighting each other (and making out) all the while trying to make a life for themselves (because who wants to go back to their parents??). Thrown together by chance, Zelda and Victor must determine what they want more- to stay with their own kind and live separate zombie and vampire existences , or throw away their un-lives and popularity for a chance at true love.
VZESFN is about 150,000 words and I'm about halfway through. What do you think?
Okay you caught me...I really didn't write a book like that. And I don't plan to. Want to know why? Because by the time I write that book, find an agent, sell it, and get it published, all those trends will be gone and something new will be in it's place. (plus it totally sucks big time- who wants to date a zombie? Ew.)
That's why every agent, every author that's ever been published, and every editor say don't write the trends! Because by the time you do, they'll be fizzled out. Vampires are totally yesterday, Zombies are already on their way out and although Steampunk is getting up there, it'll lose its ahem...steam, by the time I get it out.
Soo....Just write what you love, and what you are passionate about. If it happens to be a trend, do it! It just better be so darn stinkin good that agents will be knocking down your door for a chance to represent you. It better be fresh. Because they get HUNDREDS of queries a day for vampire, zombie and ghost books. They are over it. Done.
I love fantasy. Particularly YA fantasy. I think that genre has been pretty steady- it has had its ups and downs, but I think there will always be room for some kind of fantasy. I hope there will, because that's what I plan to write. That's my niche. I LOVE to read it and have since elementary school. I can't see myself writing anything other than fantasy, but don't quote me on that of course. I could slip into the magical realism or paranormal if I think of something that will blow the socks off Ms. Meyer or Ms. Rowling. Or at least blow the socks off their fans enough to read it.
What do you think the next trend will be? Are we going to go completely away from paranormal and into say, mysteries for teens? Or are there going to be more genre-blending like VZESFN? If you are going to write the next trend, don't think about what it might be and just write it. Maybe your book will set it off.
This is an epic love story between a Zombie named Zelda and a Vampire named Victor, set in Victorian England. They use steam-powered jet packs to travel around since the streets are teeming with hungry, lusty vampires and zombies who want to drink their blood and eat their brains (and totally make out with them any chance they get). They are of course, angst-ridden teens whose only goal in life is to listen to sad music and die their hair black. Zelda and Victor meet in an interesting turn of events, when all the adult vampires and zombies banish the teens to a desolate, bomb-ridden, nuclear wasteland because they are just too angsty and dramatic all the time. The teens must fight for their lives, whilst fighting each other (and making out) all the while trying to make a life for themselves (because who wants to go back to their parents??). Thrown together by chance, Zelda and Victor must determine what they want more- to stay with their own kind and live separate zombie and vampire existences , or throw away their un-lives and popularity for a chance at true love.VZESFN is about 150,000 words and I'm about halfway through. What do you think?
Okay you caught me...I really didn't write a book like that. And I don't plan to. Want to know why? Because by the time I write that book, find an agent, sell it, and get it published, all those trends will be gone and something new will be in it's place. (plus it totally sucks big time- who wants to date a zombie? Ew.)
That's why every agent, every author that's ever been published, and every editor say don't write the trends! Because by the time you do, they'll be fizzled out. Vampires are totally yesterday, Zombies are already on their way out and although Steampunk is getting up there, it'll lose its ahem...steam, by the time I get it out.
Soo....Just write what you love, and what you are passionate about. If it happens to be a trend, do it! It just better be so darn stinkin good that agents will be knocking down your door for a chance to represent you. It better be fresh. Because they get HUNDREDS of queries a day for vampire, zombie and ghost books. They are over it. Done.
I love fantasy. Particularly YA fantasy. I think that genre has been pretty steady- it has had its ups and downs, but I think there will always be room for some kind of fantasy. I hope there will, because that's what I plan to write. That's my niche. I LOVE to read it and have since elementary school. I can't see myself writing anything other than fantasy, but don't quote me on that of course. I could slip into the magical realism or paranormal if I think of something that will blow the socks off Ms. Meyer or Ms. Rowling. Or at least blow the socks off their fans enough to read it.
What do you think the next trend will be? Are we going to go completely away from paranormal and into say, mysteries for teens? Or are there going to be more genre-blending like VZESFN? If you are going to write the next trend, don't think about what it might be and just write it. Maybe your book will set it off.
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