Knocking back the Professional Jungle with just a Machete and a Dream ... and finding the Monkey House
It has been an extremely busy two weeks for me professionally. And by professionally I mean my writing and not the fucking day job that keeps sucking out a little more of my soul every day. There have been a lot of things going on behind the scenes and now I want to share them.
First, and probably most importantly, I have started my own publishing company. Gorillas with Scissors Press (www.gwspress.com) will be publishing independent fiction, role playing games, and comic books. The logo for the company (see above) was designed by the very talented Joseph Scott Lawn who knocked it right the fuck out of the park. Eventually I also want to publish nonfiction and poetry but baby steps first, once I have those down we can fucking run!
The first project coming from the Monkey House is my novel. I have decided to self publish after a year of trying to get an agent because I have decided that I would rather be the one calling the shots in the end. Call me a control freak if you want but that’s how the Josh rolls these days. I have renamed the book from The Risen Dead: Life During the Zombie Apocalypse to The Shores of the Dead. It has also gone from one giant brick of a novel (175,000 words) to a trilogy. I plan on doing a collected edition if the first three sell reasonably well that will include some of the cut material and appendices (SM Stirling did awesome appendices in Draka novels and that is the inspiration). I am currently waiting for Kickstarter to finish reviewing my project application so that I can begin whoring myself out to all of you to raise the capital to publish the books. I have already contracted the phenomenal Mike Mumah to do the covers of the books. The novels are currently with a third party editor because Boils and Ghouls you do not want to read my shit if it hasn’t been edited by someone else.
No writer should be his or her own FINAL editor, anyone who tells you that they can be are suspect in my book.
Project number two is my comic book. A couple of months ago I was musing online about how I would like to write a comic book called Bunny, Bunni, & Bobby the story of two strippers and a talking rabbit traveling across Canada in an avocado colored RV trying to stop an alien invasion. Well I have been toying with it since then but I have decided that I really want to do it so I have lined up potential artists and am working on a treatment and synopsis for the series. So yeah … that’s gonna happen!
So it really has been a busy time, add to all of that the continuing series of therapy journal entries on my personal blog and yeah time has been slipping by. I am excited and terrified but this is the most exciting time I have experienced in a very long time.
First, and probably most importantly, I have started my own publishing company. Gorillas with Scissors Press (www.gwspress.com) will be publishing independent fiction, role playing games, and comic books. The logo for the company (see above) was designed by the very talented Joseph Scott Lawn who knocked it right the fuck out of the park. Eventually I also want to publish nonfiction and poetry but baby steps first, once I have those down we can fucking run!
The first project coming from the Monkey House is my novel. I have decided to self publish after a year of trying to get an agent because I have decided that I would rather be the one calling the shots in the end. Call me a control freak if you want but that’s how the Josh rolls these days. I have renamed the book from The Risen Dead: Life During the Zombie Apocalypse to The Shores of the Dead. It has also gone from one giant brick of a novel (175,000 words) to a trilogy. I plan on doing a collected edition if the first three sell reasonably well that will include some of the cut material and appendices (SM Stirling did awesome appendices in Draka novels and that is the inspiration). I am currently waiting for Kickstarter to finish reviewing my project application so that I can begin whoring myself out to all of you to raise the capital to publish the books. I have already contracted the phenomenal Mike Mumah to do the covers of the books. The novels are currently with a third party editor because Boils and Ghouls you do not want to read my shit if it hasn’t been edited by someone else.
No writer should be his or her own FINAL editor, anyone who tells you that they can be are suspect in my book.
Project number two is my comic book. A couple of months ago I was musing online about how I would like to write a comic book called Bunny, Bunni, & Bobby the story of two strippers and a talking rabbit traveling across Canada in an avocado colored RV trying to stop an alien invasion. Well I have been toying with it since then but I have decided that I really want to do it so I have lined up potential artists and am working on a treatment and synopsis for the series. So yeah … that’s gonna happen!
So it really has been a busy time, add to all of that the continuing series of therapy journal entries on my personal blog and yeah time has been slipping by. I am excited and terrified but this is the most exciting time I have experienced in a very long time.
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