A couple of things for you today that I wanted to share with you. The first is the first draft of a short story that I'm about to start typing up as a second draft which I'm excited about. This is the one that'll be sent out to magazines in the hope that it'll be published. If it isn't, I'll rework it and try again. Otherwise, it can always go towards an anthology. It's for an Indiana Jones pulp fiction background where German had invaded Britain after Dunkirk and where the supernatural and super science exist. It's been called The Wolf Hunter's Ride. Can you guess what supernatural gribbly beastie is on a rampage?
The Wolf Hunter's Ride, short story |
Next up is the start of a novel, a fast paced military sci-fi novel, set on a volcanic world filled with underground forge shops that has been invaded by an army of degenerating alien clones who require human stem cells and DNA for their species' survival as it's key to their inadequate cloning techniques. Cue a regiment of pissed off army vets returning home, the secret police and bio-engineered super soldiers.
Finally, this one is going to perhaps be a longer writing project as its going to be especially close to my heart. It is going to be inspired by the works of M R James and Arthur Machen, as well as by Celtic fairy tales. It'll be set in a county that spans the Material World as well as the Other Realm and will be heavily influenced by hermeticism, gnosticism and alchemy and will incorporate some things from meditation and other similar things. The writing of this novel will pretty much be a spiritual excercise for me as it'll also be helping me to get my head around a few things.
This also brings me to another point. I have started a new blog. One that I will be using as a sort of spiritual diary. If you are interested in mystical things and would like to keep abreast of my thoughts on that kind of thing, you can find the link here, or on my About Thadeus Morticaine page of this very site. I will say though, that I have only recently started the blog, but there'll be plenty of things on the way.
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