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No, it’s not the fourth generation sequel to 28 Days Later. As much as I would love to write a zombie movie, this is not it (my Return of the Living Dead reboot script, however is about 80% done. Because we know Hollywood loves spec scripts, right?)

What is seventy-eight months later is the length into my writing career of consecutive book sales.  Seventy-eight months of month after month of consecutive book sales. Just in case you did not know what consecutive means.  Blogging: educational and informative.

Had you told me June 2011 when pre-sales started on Blood Splatter that over six years later, my books would still be selling, I would never have believed you. I’ve defied the odds of self-publishing, but now the big challenge arises.  God Just Wanted To Play Golf.  I don’t want to self-publish this if I can avoid it. I need to get this out to a big audience. Maybe One hundred seventy-eight months isn’t impossible?  Or it could be a really col zombie movie.

“Angel Askew” a.k.a “Don’t Make Me Come Down There” a.k.a. “God Just Wanted To Play Golf” is done. And I mean finished.  Multiple drafts, multiple rewrites, multiple sleepless nights.  That was the easy part. Now the hard part is getting it out to the world.

The reviews I received from my test audience are promising. These are people with no vested reason to say they like it and as a result I got some great feedback.  While it isn’t easy, seeing how others see your work is important.  You need to know how it will be received.  The book is now more polished than it has ever been and I couldn’t be happier with it.  Happy to the point where I have started the sequel. 

Now, I just need to find a publisher and or agent who is looking for something off the beaten path. Someone who can laugh at death, demons, the apocalypse and even God.  The audience exists, does the publisher?

So why the Mortal Kombat title?  I have no idea, I just heard it on TV while I was writing.  Deep, huh?

Yours distractedly (yep, that is a word now)

CWC

So why “Comicones”?

The idea of “Comicones”came from the ideal of equality. We live in an age of

repression. People are judged and ostracized for their gender, their race, their choice of or lack of religion, their sexual preference, their political stance, their age and their appearance. But beneath all of that, we are the same. We’re all made of the same organic structure. We all think and feel and love. In our purest form we are made of the same building blocks

“Comicones” is a celebration of equality, but also of uniqueness. At the heart of every Comicone is a cone and every cone is the same. The cone represents our skin and bones, our organs and muscles, our building blocks at their most basic. It’s the details that make us unique.

Every character starts as a cone. Some become heroes, some superheroes, some villains. Other’s become princesses, while others become Timelords. Some Cones are “Weird”, while others are “Thrilling”. There are demons, sheriffs, dancer’s and bounty hunters. Each one the same, but at the same time, unique.

Come celebrate the world of equality and individuality with “Comicones”.

It’s been a odd week. My laptop has been shipped out for repair and I’m a bit lost without it.  I had no idea how much I was attached to it. I use it far more than my phone.   Hopefully it should be back in my hands tomorrow.   Naturally an idea for a new story has materialized and I’m currently scribbling notes down in a notepad.  Eewww, paper! What’s that?

Yours primitively, 

CWC

Following the awful start to the year, I have finally been able to hit full stride with my creating.  

I finally wrapped up the final draft of “Don’t Make Me Come Down There”.  It’s about 9,000 words shorter and a lot tighter than previous drafts. I have submitted to a horror publisher I have admired for a while. The book is a tough sell. It’s too gory for humor publishers and too humorous for horror publishers.  Still, I am proud of the final book and fingers crossed it finds a home.  

I have also jumped into Comicones with both feet.  What started as inconsequential doodles for my daughter, has grown into something bigger.   Much bigger.  I have created well over a hundred characters so far, spanning multiple franchises and it’s becoming what I hoped the Butch G. Cat could have been.  As most of my ideas for that project were scrapped or rejected on principle that they were simply mine, I can bring this project to light on the manner I had hoped for Butch G. Cat.  I have free books in development as well as dozens of new designs.   I’m very pleased to put my stamp on this.  The new website is currently in development and I will be launching it in the coming weeks when I have figured out some animation issues.  It’s nice working on a project when I’m not getting steamrolled for presenting ideas for no other reason than they were mine.  My eventual goal is to reach out to the franchise owners in the hopes of gaining official licensing. That is a lofty goal, but hey, aim high or don’t bother. Once I’ve built up the world and shown there is value there, who knows where it can lead.  I have a franchise mission statement I am tightening up.

As far as writing goes, I have two books in active development. “The Sentinel War” and an unnamed book on internet etiquette. 

Yours creatively,

CWC