Chester and Lester's Christmas in July Special has just released. I plan on two more releases this year; one in October and another in December. I have two more projects to finish before I am back to Snow White.
I intend on self-publishing Snow White with releases every month for about 12 months, then a paperback and maybe a special edition hardback etc. I won't be putting out the first part of Snow White until the last part is finished. Basically as I change parts in the middle and end, it changes the beginning. I'm hoping for a January release, but if not, then March. It should come in segments that are around 10-20 k long.
Me and February releases don't work well. Although no one could predict that within a week of Becoming's release, people would be panic buying toilet roll, but that did negatively impact sales. Sparky came out the year before, also in February and it could have gone better (I think Sparky the Spunky Robot and Becoming are the two books on amazon that haven't fucking linked the ebook and paperback as well, bastards!). Then this past year, Stef and Tucker 4: Secret, which could have had higher release sales. I know it is part of a series and that impacts it, but February just isn't my month.
Once I finish Snow White, I will be returning to We Gave the World Synthpop Dreams, That's Where All the Magic Is and The Daisies That Open at Midnight in addition to some of the other stories that fit in with those three. I intend on going through a publisher and probably using an agent for those ones and the rest of Era Two, which may evolve into an Era Three. I haven't given myself a timeline for this. I haven't even looked into possible publishers or agents.
I'm basically going to go where the writing and art (there will at least be a lot of visuals in this time but I am hoping to add sound as well) takes me. I learned over the last few years, that I shouldn't force anything. When I was having to force myself to write at 5AM and sneak around, a lot of what I was writing wasn't as good as it could be and I was always more experimental and literary than what I had published in that time.
Sometimes I write silly stories like Chester and Lester, other times I write stuff that is both silly and sick in the head like Ketamine Addicted Pandas, and sometimes I writer extreme stuff like Reptile. And sometimes what I write while still being genre fiction is dark and weird, like Ghetto Super Skank, but that particular one is one of the bridge stories (stories that bridge between my love of experimental lit and genre fiction, unfortunately until the legal changes took place, I couldn't pursue experimental stuff any further at that point in time).
And I can't force myself to write either experimental stuff or genre fiction on demand. When I try, I screw up and have something unpublishable which is frustrating for me. At least these days, it is just frustrating and doesn't have any worse impact on my life like it used to have.
I will obviously return to genre fiction when the time is right. I know people are asking for the second Ketamine Addicted Pandas 2 and yes, I have ideas and notes but if I try to write that now, it will be shit. Basically, Sex God, Stef and Tucker, Chester and Lester will return in the future, but I don't know when. I'm not sure where the fairytales will be as some are silly, like the Midnight Pumpkin Fucker and what I'm working on now and some are a bit more serious like The Snow Queen and Snow White. I have notes for silly genre fiction ones but I may work with slightly more experimental ones while I'm finishing Era Two. And who knows, maybe I'll put out something disgusting like Name Dropping With Hayden while I'm working on my more experimental stuff.
And do remember, Broccoli is still an experimental book as is 56 Seconds, no matter how popular they are with readers of all types, they're both experimental with one being prose-poetry and the other in second person. So you will find stuff from me in this time. Plus you'll have a full year of Snow White releases while I'm doing the bulk of dealing with my experimental stuff.
I intend on self-publishing Snow White with releases every month for about 12 months, then a paperback and maybe a special edition hardback etc. I won't be putting out the first part of Snow White until the last part is finished. Basically as I change parts in the middle and end, it changes the beginning. I'm hoping for a January release, but if not, then March. It should come in segments that are around 10-20 k long.
Me and February releases don't work well. Although no one could predict that within a week of Becoming's release, people would be panic buying toilet roll, but that did negatively impact sales. Sparky came out the year before, also in February and it could have gone better (I think Sparky the Spunky Robot and Becoming are the two books on amazon that haven't fucking linked the ebook and paperback as well, bastards!). Then this past year, Stef and Tucker 4: Secret, which could have had higher release sales. I know it is part of a series and that impacts it, but February just isn't my month.
Once I finish Snow White, I will be returning to We Gave the World Synthpop Dreams, That's Where All the Magic Is and The Daisies That Open at Midnight in addition to some of the other stories that fit in with those three. I intend on going through a publisher and probably using an agent for those ones and the rest of Era Two, which may evolve into an Era Three. I haven't given myself a timeline for this. I haven't even looked into possible publishers or agents.
I'm basically going to go where the writing and art (there will at least be a lot of visuals in this time but I am hoping to add sound as well) takes me. I learned over the last few years, that I shouldn't force anything. When I was having to force myself to write at 5AM and sneak around, a lot of what I was writing wasn't as good as it could be and I was always more experimental and literary than what I had published in that time.
Sometimes I write silly stories like Chester and Lester, other times I write stuff that is both silly and sick in the head like Ketamine Addicted Pandas, and sometimes I writer extreme stuff like Reptile. And sometimes what I write while still being genre fiction is dark and weird, like Ghetto Super Skank, but that particular one is one of the bridge stories (stories that bridge between my love of experimental lit and genre fiction, unfortunately until the legal changes took place, I couldn't pursue experimental stuff any further at that point in time).
And I can't force myself to write either experimental stuff or genre fiction on demand. When I try, I screw up and have something unpublishable which is frustrating for me. At least these days, it is just frustrating and doesn't have any worse impact on my life like it used to have.
I will obviously return to genre fiction when the time is right. I know people are asking for the second Ketamine Addicted Pandas 2 and yes, I have ideas and notes but if I try to write that now, it will be shit. Basically, Sex God, Stef and Tucker, Chester and Lester will return in the future, but I don't know when. I'm not sure where the fairytales will be as some are silly, like the Midnight Pumpkin Fucker and what I'm working on now and some are a bit more serious like The Snow Queen and Snow White. I have notes for silly genre fiction ones but I may work with slightly more experimental ones while I'm finishing Era Two. And who knows, maybe I'll put out something disgusting like Name Dropping With Hayden while I'm working on my more experimental stuff.
And do remember, Broccoli is still an experimental book as is 56 Seconds, no matter how popular they are with readers of all types, they're both experimental with one being prose-poetry and the other in second person. So you will find stuff from me in this time. Plus you'll have a full year of Snow White releases while I'm doing the bulk of dealing with my experimental stuff.