Random WIP update

Hello friends!

It's time for another edition of Scott's Not Even Remotely Helpful for Authors Blog, where I post pretty useless stuff on a very infrequent basis.

Today, I'm going to give an update on my current work in progress.

It's in progress.

Ha! I kill me. I absolutely kill me.

Okay, okay. Fine. I'll share a few more details.

I'm about 30k words into a first draft. The story is set in present day. It's the first book of a new series. Still horror-comedy and still the same world... but it isn't related to my Monsters in the Midwest trilogy. Well, not entirely true. There is one little thread that joins them.

Did you read book 2, Northwoods Wolfman? If you did, you're familiar with the Society. They're an ancient order of monster hunters that recruits Dallas.

Well, in this new work, my protagonist is a high school senior from small-town southern Minnesota that's joined the Society. He's being mentored by a cranky old hunter and together they go after some supernatural nasties. Along the way they cross paths with something really bad.

There's humor, but it's not quite as slap-stick as my earlier books. There's a love story, some adventure, some mystery, some heartbreak, and some heroics. There's a twist, and there's a shocking conclusion.

My intention is to get an agent for this one so I can get it into the hands of a good publisher.

But first, I suppose I need to write the damn thing. So stop distracting me! Man's gotta write!