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In June, Strong Spirit, book 6 in my Reality Shift series, will be released. You can check out the Reality Shift thread for more about the series. In August, my paranormal novel Fresh Meat will be out. Fifteen-year-old Tobias Rogan plans on spending the summer the same way he always does: avoiding his borderline-abusive father, avoiding helping his mother take care of his younger sisters, and playing games at the local arcade. The arcade is where he meets Larry, a man in his 20s who takes more than a friendly interest in Tobias. Still sorting out his sexuality, Tobias is a little surprised by his attraction to Larry, but he's flattered by Larry's interest in him.
Then one night after a date, Larry assaults Tobias. Tobias blacks out. When he awakens, he's in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by people he doesn't know--and he's a wolf.
With the help of Jed Howe, the local werewolf pack Alpha, and other members of the pack, including 18-year-old Harok, Tobias has to come to terms with being a werewolf and with the fact that he can never see his family again.
Then he discovers that Larry is continuing to prey on young boys. Tobias refuses to let him get away with it.
(Some of you may recognize the name, and the plot may sound a wee bit familiar... This is a crossover from one of my adult romance series, but Tobias's story--and the sequels I'm planning--are solidly YA.)
In September, MuseItUp Publishing will release my first adult urban fantasy novel (not ADULT, just not categorized as YA, but it is YA-friendly). Vengeance Is Sweet is about Omara, a demon of vengeance who works for Hell, bringing those who have killed children and other innocents to their ultimate punishment. When Omara is assigned to "venge" Alejandro Ruiz, she discovers that he is innocent of having caused the suicide of his ex-wife, which he's accused of. Leaving Hell with her friend Ghast, an angel who didn't so much fall as choose to relocate, Omara takes up residence in the Midworld to prove Alex's innocence. What she learns about Alex's six-year-old daughter Keeley tells Omara why Alex was accused--and endangers all three of them. In November, Opening Up, the sequel to Cluing In featuring Jamey's uncle VJ, will be released; I can't say too much about it because I haven't quite finished writing it yet.
In December, I'll have two Christmas shorts coming out, one of which will be a follow-up to Life Skills.
And that's it for me in 2012.
Jo wrote: "And that's it for me in 2012. ..."Along with some adult work, no doubt. Holy wow, you're busy. Several of these sound right up my alley.
Yeah, I have a few things scheduled already on the adult side, a couple of M/Ms and a few heteros. Oh, and I forgot to mention: Beginning this Saturday, I'll be posting a serial story on my blog (which is on my website, joramsey.com). It's about Scott Norris, a high school student with the "secret" identity of Supernuisance, "fighter for truth and justice against the tyranny of teachers". True to his name, Scott tends to make a nuisance of himself in his classes. But then he discovers that Jeremy, the new boy at school, is a *real* superhero--and some of their teachers are real supervillains.
I'll have a new episode of the serial every Saturday, and plan to self-pub it in book form when it's complete.
Jo wrote: "Yeah, I have a few things scheduled already on the adult side, a couple of M/Ms and a few heteros. Oh, and I forgot to mention: Beginning this Saturday, I'll be posting a serial story on my blog ..."
Sounds like fun!
I'm having fun with it. LOL. I created Supernuisance when I was in junior high. In tenth grade, I had an English teacher who was very encouraging of my writing, to the point that when we had to keep a journal for a couple months as an assignment, she let me write as Supernuisance instead of myself. And she gave me an anonymous column in the school paper; for two years, no one could figure out who was writing that column, and even though a lot of kids there knew I wrote, no one suspected me because I was a "goody-two-shoes". So bringing him back and giving him a new life for a new generation--literally--is exciting for me.
I finished this a day or so ago and LOVED it...just sayin'.
Randy
No problem. You did a great job. I do have a few questions for a YA project I'm working on when you have time.Randy
Don't know how much help I'll be, but feel free to post the questions or PM me.
will PM You don't Yahoo messanger IM or Facebook chat?Randy
Yahoo Messenger gets distracting when emails come in, and since none of the people on my friends list there actually message me, I usually keep it shut off. Facebook chat sometimes works, but sometimes I get distracted by writing and forget that I'm chatting. PMs are easier. LOL
A few posts ago, I mentioned Supernuisance, and I wanted to let you guys know that episode one of his serial story is on my blog now. Here.
:) Go Supernuisance! (Where was he when I had gym?)
I don't know... I wish he'd been around when I had it! LOLI had some mental debate going on with myself about whether this would turn out to be GLBT-themed, since at one point in the past I'd considered giving SN a girlfriend, but it seems like it's going to be GLBT regardless of my opinion. LOL. The characters are just heading that way, at least in my notes.
Jo wrote: "I don't know... I wish he'd been around when I had it! LOLI had some mental debate going on with myself about whether this would turn out to be GLBT-themed, since at one point in the past I'd con..."
My characters make their own choices too, it seems like. FWIW, I'm happy to see it be GLBT :)
I don't mind it being GLBT, though it means that some of my readers are going to ignore it. But that's their problem, not mine :)
Jet Black, book 3 in The Dark Lines, has already been mentioned in another thread. That will hopefully be out by the end of this month; it's in line edits now, I think?
In March, my next contemporary novel, Dolphins in the Mud, comes out. Six months ago, 16-year-old Chris Talberman left his friends and his boyfriend behind to move with his family to Wellfleet, Massachusetts. In that time, he has made no close friends, and definitely no new boyfriend, in part because his mother chooses to hide Chris's younger sister Cece from the neighbors. Cece is autistic, and Mrs. Talberman is tired of caring for her.
One day in March, a pod of dolphins strand themselves in the cove outside Chris's home, and Cece runs out to see them. When he chases her, Chris meets Noah Silver, a boy his age whom he hasn't met before. After Chris's mother takes Cece back to the house, Chris and Noah start talking and become friends.
A few days later, Chris comes home from school to find his mother gone. She doesn't answer her cell phone, and she doesn't return. When Chris's father gets home, he finds a note stating that Chris's mother has left the family. Later, Chris learns that his mother had been having an affair.
With his mother gone, Chris has to teach his workaholic dad how to deal with Cece. He leans on Noah, but soon learns that Noah is hiding something about himself. Something that almost leads to tragedy.