Some Dates for your Diary! and Writing Meme Day 17

[erastes]

THE LAST GASP will be released by Noble Romance Publishing (ebook only so far) on 3rd MAY 2010 (Noble are thinking about paper publishing and have the rights for a year, so if they don’t take it up, I will offer the anthology to someone else, because it needs to be in print as well as ebook.)

MERE MORTALS will be released by Lethe Press in February 2011. I’m a bit excited about this. A full-sized novel release is always a big deal for me. I think you’ll like this one. *hopes*

Other News:

HARD and FAST is coming as an audio book, sometime this year. (also STANDISH) but don’t have the dates for these yet.

I’ve got an illustrator interested in doing a graphic novel for Standish. I can only apologise to Chris Smith as it means that her graphic novel for Standish will never be published. :)  There are Hoops to be navigated before this is a viable proposition – need to check with PD Publishing in the first instance (waiting to hear back from them now) – and if we get the nod, then we need to do it and SELL it to someone, but I hope it comes off.  Next to a glossy paged, hardback,  illustrated coffee book edition (the pinnacle of my book ambition for Standish, LOL), a graphic novel would be so fabulous.  Anyway, fingers crossed. And I’ll keep you posted, of course.  Next stop, Ambrose, Fleury and Rafe action figures. ;)

Writing Meme Day 17

17. Favourite protagonist and why!

OH SO DIFFICULT. It’s not because I like all my protagonists, it’s rather the opposite.  I try and make my characters as full of human bile as is naturally possible, so they’ve all got faults which make them quite unlikeable in some lights. It also depends a lot on how that protagonist is received by you the reader, because it’s no good me thinking a character is the best thing since fish finger sandwiches and you lot thinking he’s a bit fat Gary Stu. (Heaven forbid, at least I can rely on you lot to tell me if that happens.)

I think, overall, I’m going to surprise people and say Jonathan Graie from Transgressions. This isn’t because he’s a particularly good person, although he dearly dearly wants to be, and not because he does good things—although he thinks he is, especially when he joins the Witchfinders. But because he really does try, and although a lot of stuff happens to him, I don’t think he’s passive. He truly loves David, but fears the loss of his soul and does everything he can to exorcise the memory of David from his life, but fails utterly, almost to the point of his own destruction.  I think out of all my protagonists he is the one with the longest and hardest journey, and his guilt—about David, and also about what he did to all the women he had hanged—is almost a character in itself. I feel a little bad about leaving him where I did—and also jumping from his showdown to Michael—missing out five years and having him as some dread Captain in Cromwell’s employ—because I’m fascinated about what happened to him in those five years, and how he got to where to he was.

You only have today to get your entry in for my Easter Egg hunt to win a signed copy of Transgressions. Go to my website and find the URLS for four golden eggs, and email to erastes@erastes.com.

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Comments

[beckyblack]

Next stop, Ambrose, Fleury and Rafe action figures. ;)

Poseable ones, I hope. ;-)

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Poseable--and anatomically correct. With, of course, kung fu grip!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

fully functioning!! inserte tabbe a into slot b!

[beckyblack]

Warning: Not suitable for children under 5 18 years old due to small not so small parts.

[tiggothy.livejournal.com]

it needs to be in print as well as ebook

Very much so! There's still some of us about who prefer paper books (I find, for one thing, they're a lot easier to find when I lose them!)

[spindriftdancer.livejournal.com]

Yay good news! I'm so glad that you whupped Mere Mortal's butt! I figured you must have triumphed when the angsting stopped (:

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Nod nod. Got it done sometime around August last year I think then was working on selling it. It was supposed to be my next book for Running Press, but it looks like they have the gay romances on hold and so they didn't want it - so I was very happy that Lethe picked it up!

Of course now I'm angsting over the CURRENT wip. Nothing changes...

[spindriftdancer.livejournal.com]

Plus ca change... (without the correct accents...)

Courage! (:

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Your new dragon appears to have minty breath. YAY!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

yes, its a female grown up poo dragon, she's different from the male. thank goodness.

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

I wish to formally state that I AM VERY UPSET.

xx

C

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Standish, the graphic novel, will be awesome! I want one :)