Two novel updates, a new comic project, and music news
Much news, so click 'read more' or be square! The novel I completed in April, The Detective, is in a static workable draft form - ie I'm waiting to get feedback from a handful of early readers soon before it changes again. I've decided the genre of this project is Meta-Noir; it may be the only project I write to which that applies, but it applies. If you read the introduction you'll get it, but I'm not going to spoil anything, and it's extremely easy to spoil. On the note of The Detective, I had thought for a LONG time that I wasn't going to go for anything other than self-publication with it, but I've changed my mind and will probably seek traditional publication. The wrong editor would gut this piece, however, and releasing it in a form that retains the thing's structure is paramount for me, so that may not work out - but I'm going to give it a shot. Moving on, a while ago I happened to visit a cafe with some ridiculously cool art on ...