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Author Craft / Re: Author In Progress
« on: September 01, 2006, 09:56:39 PM »
Hi, my name is Kurt, and I'm an alco---alcoho--err, an unpublished writer.
My first novel, The Interesting Accountant, was about an accountant who is turned into an elf with a revenant on his tail after pissing off a necromancer. He's up against the clock with the necromancer trying to bring back the Wild Host led by the Yule Alf (Santa's real predecessor). I know, I know, I have never heard of an "interesting accountant" either. No nibbles on it, but I had fun writing the story.
My second novel, Loki Moon, was about a commune raised ex-Navy Seal who's sent into a subglacial research facility (200 meters below a glacier, with miles of tunnels) to investigate a potential outbreak of an infectious agent. The infectious agent, released from the ice, transforms people into various manifestations of beings bearing similar traits to those of Norse myth (various conditions the victims are in determines what they become). After the military move in to deal with the threat, the facility is overrun and the main character and a handful of survivors are trapped inside one of the subglacial labs. After making homemade bombs from lab chemicals (flashbacks to my childhood) to use on the creatures pounding and weakening the lab hatch, the survivors flee through the maintenance tunnels, then through the meltwater tunnels into the depths of the glacier, where they find the source of the infectious agent. They find an old Nazi ice drill vehicle preserved in the cold (abandoned when the original occupants investigated the depths) and when the host of beings stir to life to feed on the survivors, they drive the vehicle down the subglacial river artery and out the snout into a proglacial lake. As they're surrounded by the host of beings, the main character realizes the link between a scientific solution and the purported solution mentioned in Norse lore for the threat.
Had loads of fun writing this story and learning about the subglacial world of scientists in Norway. Talk about rugged scientists, they're the real deal. They study microscopic life frozen in the lightless, airless ice for space travel applications--cool stuff. That was where I had the notion of an infectious agent frozen in a glacier being the cause for the beings out of Norse myth.
Still piling up rejection letters for this one, but I'll keep plugging away. The next novel I'm working on is a murder mystery set in Navy Seal training (BUDS), where an officer trainees' fellow officers start getting murdered. I don't care much for delving into my personal experiences in BUDS (each day we were served a different variety of shit sandwich, but no matter how they served it, it as still a shit sandwich), but it might be fun for people to read about a guy struggling through training one minute and the next he's trying to figure out who's killing his classmates (before its his turn).
Great stories from everybody on the board. Good luck to all of you with your writing. We're so fortunate to share this passion. You all inspire me, thanks for your posts.
My first novel, The Interesting Accountant, was about an accountant who is turned into an elf with a revenant on his tail after pissing off a necromancer. He's up against the clock with the necromancer trying to bring back the Wild Host led by the Yule Alf (Santa's real predecessor). I know, I know, I have never heard of an "interesting accountant" either. No nibbles on it, but I had fun writing the story.
My second novel, Loki Moon, was about a commune raised ex-Navy Seal who's sent into a subglacial research facility (200 meters below a glacier, with miles of tunnels) to investigate a potential outbreak of an infectious agent. The infectious agent, released from the ice, transforms people into various manifestations of beings bearing similar traits to those of Norse myth (various conditions the victims are in determines what they become). After the military move in to deal with the threat, the facility is overrun and the main character and a handful of survivors are trapped inside one of the subglacial labs. After making homemade bombs from lab chemicals (flashbacks to my childhood) to use on the creatures pounding and weakening the lab hatch, the survivors flee through the maintenance tunnels, then through the meltwater tunnels into the depths of the glacier, where they find the source of the infectious agent. They find an old Nazi ice drill vehicle preserved in the cold (abandoned when the original occupants investigated the depths) and when the host of beings stir to life to feed on the survivors, they drive the vehicle down the subglacial river artery and out the snout into a proglacial lake. As they're surrounded by the host of beings, the main character realizes the link between a scientific solution and the purported solution mentioned in Norse lore for the threat.
Had loads of fun writing this story and learning about the subglacial world of scientists in Norway. Talk about rugged scientists, they're the real deal. They study microscopic life frozen in the lightless, airless ice for space travel applications--cool stuff. That was where I had the notion of an infectious agent frozen in a glacier being the cause for the beings out of Norse myth.
Still piling up rejection letters for this one, but I'll keep plugging away. The next novel I'm working on is a murder mystery set in Navy Seal training (BUDS), where an officer trainees' fellow officers start getting murdered. I don't care much for delving into my personal experiences in BUDS (each day we were served a different variety of shit sandwich, but no matter how they served it, it as still a shit sandwich), but it might be fun for people to read about a guy struggling through training one minute and the next he's trying to figure out who's killing his classmates (before its his turn).
Great stories from everybody on the board. Good luck to all of you with your writing. We're so fortunate to share this passion. You all inspire me, thanks for your posts.