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Chateau Gilmour & Dark Discoveries

On July 31, 2016

In Chess Team, Comics, Frozen, Short Stories

Been a long while since I made any updates here. Believe me, it wasn’t for lack of trying. In addition to the day job, the freelance work, and the writing in 2016, I’ve been going through a bitter and contested divorce and custody battle. Not the sort of divorce where I need anyone’s sympathy, but the kind where congratulations are in order. It’s been a long time coming. Needless to say, it’s been complicated and has eaten up a ton of my time. I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, though.

I’m now firmly entrenched in the brand new Central Vermont Chateau Gilmour, free of the offending former spouse. It’s an eighty-six year old Victorian duplex (I’ve got one side of the building), and the location is surprisingly quiet for being right in a city of close to sixty thousand people. But I’m at the end of a dead-end street, with a steep tree-covered hill at the dead end, and a babbling brook behind my back yard. Walking distance from the public library, but far enough from Main Street that I don’t hear any of the noise from the occasional New England summer festival or the thumping bassline from some wannabe gangbanger with the lowrider pickup truck with undercarriage neon lights and no muffler.

Shoguns, Action Missiles, and Cartoons in Korea

By Kane

On May 3, 2016

In Anthology, Coming Soon, Short Stories, Writing

UPDATE:

The MECH anthology was a huge success on Kickstarter, and the funding was acheived to not only publish the book, but also to include that gorgeous art from Frankie B. Washington pictured below. I’m pretty sure the release will be around Jan 2017. Look for it then, and I’ll be promoting it when it’s out.

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I came to a love of Mechs and Giant Robots in an unusual way. There were two parts to it. The first was in the late 1970s as a child, when I got one of the two-foot tall Shogun Warriors toys. You might know him as Great Mazinger, but in the toy line, this plastic behemoth was simply ‘Mazinga.’ And he was glorious. Spring loaded rockets in his fist (more on this in a bit), a wobbly plastic sword in one hand, spare rockets clipped onto his shoulders, and—because it was the spectacular 70s, and probably also because Disco was murdering our earholes—Mazinga had roller skates built into his feet. That’s right. Roller skates. Simply put, it was the coolest and most alien toy I had ever seen. And this was 1979 in New York, well after the initial onslaught of Star Wars toys. Star Wars was literally alien, but I had at least been familiar with the film (which I saw at a drive-in at the age of six). When it came to Mazinga, Raydeen, and Dragun—the first few Shogun Warriors—I had no context, and no understanding of Japan or the Japanese culture that had spawned them. I did recognize the fourth Shogun Warrior release at that size, though: Godzilla films had been on TV Saturday afternoons my whole life.

The Death of My Plans for 2015

By Kane

On October 18, 2015

In Coming Soon, Frozen, Writing

So one of my readers posted a photo I had created, which I posted at the start of the year. It contained 7 book covers and 3 blacked out spots because the cover art was not yet final. It’s pictured here.

So here’s what happened to those plans.

Endgame was released in February.

And…pretty much none of the rest of it will happen in 2015, except for—maybe—Frozen.

I did manage to get three short stories written this year; “Show of Force” co-authored with Jeremy Robinson, appeared in SNAFU: Survival of the Fittest, from Cohesion Press and “Here We Go! Fight!” will appear in the upcoming anthology MECH: Age of Steel from Ragnarok Publications. The third is currently wandering the landscape a little shocked and surprised to have been born, and it’s looking for a publisher.

In 2015, I also wrote the last book on that picture—the project that was codenamed ‘Blacktop,’ which now has a title of Viking Tomorrow. The first draft of that book, co-authored with Jeremy Robinson and to be released under a pseudonym, is done, but I’m in the process of making some major revisions to it. The book should be released in 2016 now. That project took a bit of my time this year. The project I had codenamed Verne is backburner now, too, because it was for a large publisher, who will now be looking at Viking Tomorrow instead.

Kent and I will be working on Interstate 0 in November, but it most definitely won’t see publication until 2016 now.

Because I have more demand for Frozen than for the Frankenstein book, and because I’ve now missed the window entirely for Halloween, Frankie is moving to the back burner, as I try to get the Jason Quinn book finished this winter and released as soon as possible. Friction got demoted from a novella to a short story, and I should get that written in the next month. More about that as it gets closer to completion.

I’m also in the process of adapting Jeremy Robinson’s novel Island 731 into a comic book (again, co-authoring with him). More news on that one soon.

That leaves Monster Kingdom, which I’m in the process of workshopping with some trusted authors, and which I need to heavily re-write. The Edward Phantom short stories are even more back-burner than the rest of it.

I spent a good portion of this year with three different colds, and no work got done during those times. So I’m fine-tuning my focus now, getting the comic done, and the edits on the Viking book done. Then full steam on Frozen, followed by the long awaited collaboration with Kent.

It should come as no surprise that I won’t be creating a 2016 picture to haunt me in October next year, but all these projects are still coming at some point. So if one or the other has been particularly intriguing you, be patient with me a while longer. It’s all on the way.

New Books and New Looks

By Kane

On March 20, 2015

In Chess Team, Endgame, Frozen

So Endgame is out now. The book is a strange hybrid of a novella, a guidebook, and a short story. It’s a comprehensive look at the 18 books out so far in Jeremy Robinson’s Jack Sigler/Chess Team thriller series, for which I’ve co-authored a few books. This one, for the foreseeable future, will be my last.

Written as if you were taking a peek into Deep
Blue’s personal files, the book is filled with character bios, book summaries, and art. It also has a nice little framing-sequence short story around it, that tells you what happened to Deep Blue after the end of Cannibal (Book 7), which was also recently released.