Rashaad Bell's Blog, page 2
December 15, 2012
Hobbies...
So writing books used to be my hobby, but I'm trying to turn it into my job. The thing is, when your hobbies become your job you now have to find new hobbies to take your mind off your new job.
Hmm....if I ever wrote for video games I'd be fucked.
Hmm....if I ever wrote for video games I'd be fucked.
December 14, 2012
Real talk
Hi, I'm rashaad bell. I'm the author of the vampire manifesto series, forgotten future anthology and alphabetical genocide. I'm typing this on my iPad, so if it auto capitalizes shit and spell checks shit then great, if not, then fuck it.
I am not a writer. I suck at spelling, can't create a proper sentence worth a damn, first person present, first person past tense, wtf is that shit?
Eh...fuck it.
I'm a storyteller. I have awesome stories to tell, so sit back and shut the fuck up and stop getting caught up in the cgi of the writing.
I work a shitty job, I'm in love with a woman who couldn't give a fuck and I don't have a cell phone. Well I have a cell, but I just haven't turned it back on cause people who call me can sometimes be annoying little dipshits, but if I don't pick up, then I'm the asshole.
I write books.
Yup, that's me. If your reading this, I'm guessing you've read one.
To everyone who has given me good reviews, thank you. To everyone who has given me bad reviews, thank you, I see the problems you point out and I'm working on it.
Everything I do, book wise, is just me. I can't afford good editing, because, hell, I get an eviction notice on my door every month cause I pay rent late.
So for everyone who keeps talking shit about how I need better editing, I hear you, I'm working on it. I just got some novel editing software and I'm going to try to clean that shit up.
I haven't been writing, but I've been plotting like a motherfucker. I pretty much have all of vampire manifesto book three plotted out and if I don't get stupid drunk tomorrow, I should be working on that.
I'm also plotting out three new series spinning out of the vampire manifesto.
Epsilon 9, which is gonna be an erotic thriller.
Girard, which is gonna chronicle what happened to that character after the book fledgling.
Plus a secret book that I can't talk about because it will spoil shit from book three of the vampire manifesto.
I love all my fans, thanks for the Facebook requests and emails you send.
I'm trying to get better and polish off my shit, but my life is fucking hectic and I'm hella broke all the fucking time, so bare with me.
Read some awesome shit and stop being a fucking grammar Nazi.
Or be a grammar Nazi because my shit isn't on point and honestly, whatever excuse I give on why it's not, doesn't really fucking matter cause it should be on point. Yup, I know I'm fucking up.
But this is what I got, love it or leave it.
I am not a writer. I suck at spelling, can't create a proper sentence worth a damn, first person present, first person past tense, wtf is that shit?
Eh...fuck it.
I'm a storyteller. I have awesome stories to tell, so sit back and shut the fuck up and stop getting caught up in the cgi of the writing.
I work a shitty job, I'm in love with a woman who couldn't give a fuck and I don't have a cell phone. Well I have a cell, but I just haven't turned it back on cause people who call me can sometimes be annoying little dipshits, but if I don't pick up, then I'm the asshole.
I write books.
Yup, that's me. If your reading this, I'm guessing you've read one.
To everyone who has given me good reviews, thank you. To everyone who has given me bad reviews, thank you, I see the problems you point out and I'm working on it.
Everything I do, book wise, is just me. I can't afford good editing, because, hell, I get an eviction notice on my door every month cause I pay rent late.
So for everyone who keeps talking shit about how I need better editing, I hear you, I'm working on it. I just got some novel editing software and I'm going to try to clean that shit up.
I haven't been writing, but I've been plotting like a motherfucker. I pretty much have all of vampire manifesto book three plotted out and if I don't get stupid drunk tomorrow, I should be working on that.
I'm also plotting out three new series spinning out of the vampire manifesto.
Epsilon 9, which is gonna be an erotic thriller.
Girard, which is gonna chronicle what happened to that character after the book fledgling.
Plus a secret book that I can't talk about because it will spoil shit from book three of the vampire manifesto.
I love all my fans, thanks for the Facebook requests and emails you send.
I'm trying to get better and polish off my shit, but my life is fucking hectic and I'm hella broke all the fucking time, so bare with me.
Read some awesome shit and stop being a fucking grammar Nazi.
Or be a grammar Nazi because my shit isn't on point and honestly, whatever excuse I give on why it's not, doesn't really fucking matter cause it should be on point. Yup, I know I'm fucking up.
But this is what I got, love it or leave it.
September 20, 2012
Vampire Manifesto
To everyone who has a copy of the kindle version of vampire manifesto. A newly edited version is now available for download! Waiting for all other ereaders to be updated.
September 11, 2012
Unpublished guest blog post...
Don't know if it's gonna get presented on her blog, but here it is:
I write because I have a story to tell. Its not the most concise story and its not the best edited story in the world, but its a story nonetheless. This offends people. It offends traditional publishers because it is a threat to their way of doing business. It signifies that I no longer need them and their antiquated business practices to find my audience. It proves to them that in fact, I don't need them anymore. I can create my own online presence. I can create my own paperbacks and distribute them. I've, in essence, taken the power that they have held over traditional publishing and proved that it is now obsolete. I can kick down my own doors and place my books firmly in the hands of people that desire them without the need of Big Six approval.
It also offends the elitist of indie authors as well. How dare I attempt to sell something that is nowhere near the perfection of their fully vetted, professionally edited manuscripts? To them, my poorly written, continuity error filled novel, with it's homemade cover design and dated pop culture references and lackluster editing even attempt to try and carve out a little niche for myself? I need to do it their way or not at all. More importantly, since it's not of professional grade quality, I need to crawl back into whatever hovel I came from and not show my face until it meets their merit of perfection. To them, I am a threat to everything they stand for. I am going to ruin indie publishing. I'm going to turn off their readers with my incoherent ramblings that I pass off as a novel.
I also write about Vampires. This offends people. People are sick of Vampires! They suck, pardon the pun. It's not a real book. I'm just flooding the market place with my Vampire crap, stopping readers from finding their masterpiece. Nobody wants to read it anyway. Your destroying indie publishing with that nonsense, go write a real book!
I never imagined that by sitting at the keyboard and typing, I would offend so many people. But do you want to know a secret?
I don't care.
I'm not writing my books to gain the attention of the Big Six and I sure as heck don't write to gain the approval of other indie authors. I write because I have a story to tell, plain and simple. I'm just a guy, with a keyboard and an idea. I never claimed I was anything other then that. I'm not here to give you that great, all American novel. I'm not trying to create something that will go done in history as one of the greatest things written since Tolkien sat down at a typewriter. I'm just here to tell you about a girl named Madison Amber Rose who is destined to open one of the Boxes of Pandora. Vampires want her dead, Werewolves are hounding her every step and ancient Gods have suddenly reappeared in our dimension with plans of destroying reality itself.
Who am I?
I'm just a guy with an idea, a little bit of writing skills and the ability to get that idea on your Ebook device. I'm not here to give you that perfect masterpiece you've been waiting on, but I'm trying. I get better ever day. Right now, I'm not that author that I always dreamed of being, but practice makes perfect. The funny thing is, if they think I'm a threat now, they oh boy, I've got a surprise coming for them in the future.
I write because I have a story to tell. Its not the most concise story and its not the best edited story in the world, but its a story nonetheless. This offends people. It offends traditional publishers because it is a threat to their way of doing business. It signifies that I no longer need them and their antiquated business practices to find my audience. It proves to them that in fact, I don't need them anymore. I can create my own online presence. I can create my own paperbacks and distribute them. I've, in essence, taken the power that they have held over traditional publishing and proved that it is now obsolete. I can kick down my own doors and place my books firmly in the hands of people that desire them without the need of Big Six approval.
It also offends the elitist of indie authors as well. How dare I attempt to sell something that is nowhere near the perfection of their fully vetted, professionally edited manuscripts? To them, my poorly written, continuity error filled novel, with it's homemade cover design and dated pop culture references and lackluster editing even attempt to try and carve out a little niche for myself? I need to do it their way or not at all. More importantly, since it's not of professional grade quality, I need to crawl back into whatever hovel I came from and not show my face until it meets their merit of perfection. To them, I am a threat to everything they stand for. I am going to ruin indie publishing. I'm going to turn off their readers with my incoherent ramblings that I pass off as a novel.
I also write about Vampires. This offends people. People are sick of Vampires! They suck, pardon the pun. It's not a real book. I'm just flooding the market place with my Vampire crap, stopping readers from finding their masterpiece. Nobody wants to read it anyway. Your destroying indie publishing with that nonsense, go write a real book!
I never imagined that by sitting at the keyboard and typing, I would offend so many people. But do you want to know a secret?
I don't care.
I'm not writing my books to gain the attention of the Big Six and I sure as heck don't write to gain the approval of other indie authors. I write because I have a story to tell, plain and simple. I'm just a guy, with a keyboard and an idea. I never claimed I was anything other then that. I'm not here to give you that great, all American novel. I'm not trying to create something that will go done in history as one of the greatest things written since Tolkien sat down at a typewriter. I'm just here to tell you about a girl named Madison Amber Rose who is destined to open one of the Boxes of Pandora. Vampires want her dead, Werewolves are hounding her every step and ancient Gods have suddenly reappeared in our dimension with plans of destroying reality itself.
Who am I?
I'm just a guy with an idea, a little bit of writing skills and the ability to get that idea on your Ebook device. I'm not here to give you that perfect masterpiece you've been waiting on, but I'm trying. I get better ever day. Right now, I'm not that author that I always dreamed of being, but practice makes perfect. The funny thing is, if they think I'm a threat now, they oh boy, I've got a surprise coming for them in the future.
September 5, 2012
The qoute of the day:
"Douchebag is as Douchebag does..."
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
August 30, 2012
True love...
"A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind."
Amber: The one woman I'll never forget.
Kelly: Maybe next lifetime we'll be butterflies.
Ivette: True friendship destroyed,
Kady: Don't know what you have till its gone.
Kymberli: It is what it is...
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind."
Amber: The one woman I'll never forget.
Kelly: Maybe next lifetime we'll be butterflies.
Ivette: True friendship destroyed,
Kady: Don't know what you have till its gone.
Kymberli: It is what it is...
August 29, 2012
Earth Travel Guide
Visiting Earth for the first time? Here's a tip: Wear some goddamn clothes!
1) E.T.-butt fucking naked. And stop putting shit in your mouth dumb ass, no wonder you got sick.
2) Aliens from Signs-butt fucking naked. Plus you came to a planet where rainwater is like acid. Dip shit.
3) War of the Worlds-butt fucking naked. If I ran around mars in my birthday suit, I'm sure I'd get pretty fucking sick too.
1) E.T.-butt fucking naked. And stop putting shit in your mouth dumb ass, no wonder you got sick.
2) Aliens from Signs-butt fucking naked. Plus you came to a planet where rainwater is like acid. Dip shit.
3) War of the Worlds-butt fucking naked. If I ran around mars in my birthday suit, I'm sure I'd get pretty fucking sick too.
August 25, 2012
Soundtrack to what I'm writting to...
Working on the new book. Here's what I'm listening to.
Pandora: Ellie Goulding station and the Lana Del Ray station
Songs: just a quick copy and paste
Eyes on fire zeds dead remix blue fountainSomeday nickel backIts been awhile stainedStarry eyed Ellie Goulding Let me go 3 doors downRight here stainedTonic if you could only seeFuel hemmorageOne headlight the wallflowersCreed higher3am matchbox 20Raise your weapon noisia remix deadmau5I hate everything about you 3 days graceBring me to life evanescence Cosmic love Florence + the machines shake it outCracks flux pavilion remix frestylersLights bassnector remix ellie gouldingLove me when I'm gone 3 doors downDrops of Jupiter trainDare you to move switchfootPhotograph nickelbackFray you found meCrystallized Lindsey sterlingGot 2 know flux pavilion Jumper third eye blindTwo princes spin doctor
Pandora: Ellie Goulding station and the Lana Del Ray station
Songs: just a quick copy and paste
Eyes on fire zeds dead remix blue fountainSomeday nickel backIts been awhile stainedStarry eyed Ellie Goulding Let me go 3 doors downRight here stainedTonic if you could only seeFuel hemmorageOne headlight the wallflowersCreed higher3am matchbox 20Raise your weapon noisia remix deadmau5I hate everything about you 3 days graceBring me to life evanescence Cosmic love Florence + the machines shake it outCracks flux pavilion remix frestylersLights bassnector remix ellie gouldingLove me when I'm gone 3 doors downDrops of Jupiter trainDare you to move switchfootPhotograph nickelbackFray you found meCrystallized Lindsey sterlingGot 2 know flux pavilion Jumper third eye blindTwo princes spin doctor
