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If The Sandlot were made today -
You’re Unaliving me, Unbigs!
We’re counting down to the unofficial beginning of summer, Memorial Day. It’s a funny feeling this year because the outside temp barely broke sixty degrees in my locale. I’m not complaining, mind you. Usually by this time of year, I’m shedding two pounds of sweat per day out of several unmentionable places. Don’t worry, all you summer fans. You’ll be frolicking in your swamp-butt weather soon enough. Meanwhile, let’s enjoy our “blackberry winter.” (If you know, you know.) oh, Happy Mother’s Day, as well.
In publishing news, Find-A-Way Voices has found their way out of business, sort of. Disembodied voices? They were recently bought by Spotify. Now they’ve been absorbed into the other ship. What does this mean for you? Not much. Your audiobooks will still be available in all the usual apps. It just means that a lot of authors are scrambling to update their accounts. There’s nothing nefarious going on here, but a big name in the publishing world is no longer, and in the words of Tommy Boy, “That’s gonna leave a mark.”
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Okay, this is my only title that is truly folk horror. It’s a haunted house cautionary tale in which two young teens get more than what they bargained for. I wanted to write something scary for kids, because that’s fun. I also took the opportunity to explore the stages of grief in a novel way. The result was a book that could publish with some pride. But what I couldn’t do was categorize it in the middle grade genre, which is vexing.
Part of the problem is, in all likelihood, the title. Some distributors didn’t feel comfortable marketing it towards children. Cowards. Okay, maybe that’s a little harsh. But some of these same corporations have no problem peddling graphic smut to kindergartners. Not going to get political here. It’s just a topsy-turvy world living in sometimes. So what I want to say is, this book is completely fine for any ten to fourteen year old kid to read. It is not inappropriate within the middle grade genre. It’s categorized and marketed correctly on Amazon, of all places. However, I have to market it as young adult in most places, which it is not. Anyway, I’m getting off my soapbox now.
On the writing front, I finished the third chapter of my current WIP yesterday. Not gonna lie, I like it. Writing will go slowly for the next few weeks, but should take off in earnest over summer vacation. Such is the teacher life. Meanwhile, my latest joke book has about a dozen pages, so there’s that. Fifty pages is where I start editing and formatting. Also, there are twenty-five redneck memes suggesting that a new Redneck Lingo installment may be on the horizon by year’s end. We shall see.
Until Next Time, God Bless!
