I Accidentally Wrote a Novel

I've been working on this novel for the last five months, so you might wonder just how I "accidentally" wrote The Gantlet Brothers: Sold Out.  The truth is a mighty amount of time and effort went into putting those 93,000 words down, however when I first sat down to write the tale I was intending to write a short story.

However, I did not stick to my Two-Step Formula for Constructing Short Stories.  Instead I approached Sold Out with just one pivotal scene in mind: I asked myself what would happen if one of the Gantlet Brothers was brutally murdered on stage.  Then I let the rest of the story unravel in front of me. One full-length novel later I know the answer.

Before I attack my next large project I plan to do three or four short stories for various anthologies.  This time I'll actually keep my short stories short.