Jul 22
Yesterday afternoon I finished my first novel manuscript! Elvis Sightings is a 90,000 word novel about a private investigator who lives his life the way he thinks Elvis would, if Elvis had been a private investigator from Pocatello Idaho named Floyd.
I’m off to San Diego Comic-Con today to promote the Resident Evil comic I did for Wildstorm and to talk to folks in the fiction industry about placing my book with a publisher.
See you there!
Jun 26
Just finished the second draft of my novel! Here’s the pitch…
Floyd is a Lifestyle Elvis. And a Lifestyle Elvis is not an Impersonator. Floyd lives his life the way he thinks Elvis would have wanted him to – which to Floyd means wearing sequined jump suits and a career as a private detective. He’s just rolled into Kresge, Wyoming, where his patron believes Elvis is alive and well and living under the pseudonym Jon Burrows. Floyd barely has time for drink before he’s beaten up by a midget, roped into a search for a playboy town councilman, falls for the town’s bearded lady sheriff, and immersed in a Cold War era Soviet conspiracy to fake the deaths of American celebrities in an attempt to destabilize the proletariate.
But there’s no sign of Burrows or the missing councilman. If Floyd can survive a Viking re-enactment, avoid the billy clubs of mysterious government agents, and prevent the town from being turned into a Dutch themed amusement park, he might just get the bearded girl, save the day, and find Elvis.
May 11
Just finished the first draft of my manuacript. 90k words, 8 months of writing, 18 years of thinking about it, and I finally got to the end!
Taking a week off to work on a cook book and Children’s book, then I begin the rewrite.
Very excited!
Apr 29
and counting! Just crossed the 70k mark on the novel. I kept worrying I’d run out of stuff to write and end up with an 80k word book, which is on the short side, but not so worried about that now as the end is still so far, far away…
