New genre, new (ish) characters
At last I can reveal the side project I've been working on. Fellow writer Jason Greenfield has created a shared universe where he and other writers can write interconnected stories. I'm one of those other writers.
This shared universe is known as the Fox Universe or Earth-F. It's based on a series of comic books published by the now-defunct Fox Feature Syndicate in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s. Thanks to the vagaries of US copyright law, the stories and characters are now in the public domain, meaning that anyone can do whatever they want with them.
My stories (or story, since I've written only one so far) are about Doctor Fung and Dan Barrister, a Chinese detective and his American sidekick. They go all over the world, fighting criminals both mundane and supernatural - as if Hercules Poirot had teamed up with Indiana Jones.
My first story is called The Case of the Missing Shells. Here's the blurb for it:
February, 1942. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has drawn the United States into World War Two. Democracy and freedom hang in the balance as the Allies struggle to halt the Japanese advance across the Pacific.
In Los Angeles, master sleuth Doctor Fung and his sidekick Dan Barrister are asked to investigate an apparent case of sabotage at an ammunition factory. It seems simple - almost too simple to be worth the time of such legendary detectives. But Dan and the Doctor soon discover a much larger and more sinister criminal scheme is in play...
You can read The Case of the Missing Shells for free on Wattpad, here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/2156150... (You might need to create an account before it will let you see anything.) Wattpad encourages writers to post stories a chapter at a time, so I'll be doing that, even though the story is finished. I'll post a new chapter every Friday. There are twelve chapters altogether.
Enjoy!
This shared universe is known as the Fox Universe or Earth-F. It's based on a series of comic books published by the now-defunct Fox Feature Syndicate in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s. Thanks to the vagaries of US copyright law, the stories and characters are now in the public domain, meaning that anyone can do whatever they want with them.
My stories (or story, since I've written only one so far) are about Doctor Fung and Dan Barrister, a Chinese detective and his American sidekick. They go all over the world, fighting criminals both mundane and supernatural - as if Hercules Poirot had teamed up with Indiana Jones.
My first story is called The Case of the Missing Shells. Here's the blurb for it:
February, 1942. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has drawn the United States into World War Two. Democracy and freedom hang in the balance as the Allies struggle to halt the Japanese advance across the Pacific.
In Los Angeles, master sleuth Doctor Fung and his sidekick Dan Barrister are asked to investigate an apparent case of sabotage at an ammunition factory. It seems simple - almost too simple to be worth the time of such legendary detectives. But Dan and the Doctor soon discover a much larger and more sinister criminal scheme is in play...
You can read The Case of the Missing Shells for free on Wattpad, here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/2156150... (You might need to create an account before it will let you see anything.) Wattpad encourages writers to post stories a chapter at a time, so I'll be doing that, even though the story is finished. I'll post a new chapter every Friday. There are twelve chapters altogether.
Enjoy!
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