Edgar Cantero's Blog, page 6

Quidnuncs and Aardvarks

Y'all ask, I answer, this blog looks active despite the dearth of new published material.

 

I want to know if you’re working on any new books?

I swear I haven't stopped writing, despite what my Wikipedia page seems to imply! Sadly my upcoming novel Heaven Park has gotten stuck somewhere along the publisher's manuscript-to-book assembly line, and it's still far in the horizon. This is extra frustrating because the logjam is also preventing me from shopping around my new manuscripts, of which I have ...

Don't tell anyone I'm doing this

"A spec script, also known as a speculative screenplay, is a non-commissioned and unsolicited screenplay. It is usually written by a screenwriter who hopes to have the script optioned and eventually purchased by a producer, production company, or studio." 

*chomps on slice of "at-least-I'm-trying" cake*

Ten years later

Anyway. Today is the 10th anniversary of Vallvi—the craziest, longest, densest, most populous, and most personal book I ever wrote (pending the upcoming Heaven Park, which will beat it in all those areas).

Vallvi is also my least-read novel. And it hasn't aged well. I would never reissue it today without substantial changes to mitigate my ignorance, and still I fear it would go bad again in another ten years. In spite of that, I'm fonder of it than I am of later mistakes. That's because Vallvi w...

Foxtrot/November

I'm a happy little author.

New MS

I'm a happy little author.

Trans Rights Are Human Rights

And if you support anti-trans legislation or any such sort of reactionary bullshit, just know I will always save one queer kid over a thousand of you. Any day. Bring in the trolley.

File/New

Though I often scorn research, it is fun to engage in some laid-back worldbuilding and to fiddle with a few graphics before jumping into writing out an idea. Some project folders are created years before the actual text file, either cause the ideas need time to ripen, or you're too busy to get into it now, or you're just afraid of compromise. The good news is by the time you finally start writing, you already have elaborate, enigmatic puzzle pieces to show. 

 

Mentally I'm here

 

Corporeally too.

Third version of Heaven Park submitted.

��Mirad, un post en castellano! Esto es que quiero venderos algo

Para todos los que no paraban por este blog desde que est�� todo en ingl��s, un resumen r��pido de lo ocurrido en "Edgar trabaja en Los ��ngeles":

Esta es mi cuarta novela, la segunda en ingl��s, segunda en ser traducida al castellano. Se titula Meddling Kids .
La original sali�� en Estados Unidos en 2017. La traducci��n sale en Espa��a hoy.Traduce Christian Rodr��guez.Publica la editorial Ins��lita.Va de lesbianas, perretes y monstruos interdimensionales.Compradla o estar��is matando la lengua de ...

¡Mirad, un post en castellano! Esto es que quiero venderos algo

Para todos los que no paraban por este blog desde que está todo en inglés, un resumen rápido de lo ocurrido en "Edgar trabaja en Los Ángeles":

Esta es mi cuarta novela, la segunda en inglés, segunda en ser traducida al castellano. Se titula Meddling Kids .
La original salió en Estados Unidos en 2017. La traducción sale en España hoy.Traduce Christian Rodríguez.Publica la editorial Insólita.Va de lesbianas, perretes y monstruos interdimensionales.Compradla o estaréis matando la lengua de Cervantes. ...