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So THIS happened today:
omigod. nearly 700 copies of THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING all in my tiny ass nyc apartment. AHHHHH. WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!
Yeah, so I BEEN BUSY
But still, I eeked out a reasonable amount of work today, considering.
PARIAHS
Today’s Word Count: 1,638
Total Word Count: 27,329
Inspirational image for the day:
A little Ripley for that ass. Raise your hand if you’re not remotely surprised to find out that PARIAHS is about a bunch of complicated kickass ladies. Yup, lotta hands!
Alright, kids, here we go!
Huge failure today (read about how this will work here).
But let’s only let it motivate me to higher counts for day 2!
PARIAHS
Today’s Word Count: 0
Total/Starting Word Count: 25,691
Inspirational Image For The Day: Valkyrie, bitches!
Last year I had a wildly successful run at NaNoWriMo.
This year we’re off to a rocky start as I haven’t even done my introductory post and it’s already Day Two! Argh
But I have a really good excuse (don’t we all)…my books came in yesterday!
See?
Anyway, so yeah, I was busy! And will still be busy…judging by these boxes…forever! But I enjoyed NaNo so much last year and it helped me drive forward to completion on a new book that I really love, so I just gotta do it again.
As always, I’m not really following the rules though. I’m going to do it my own way. I’m starting with a project called PARIAHS that I’m working on that already has 25,000 words (most of them usable). It needs another 50k or so to get to “The End.” It’s also the project that I tried (and failed) to do for NaNo in 2010…hopefully we’ll have better luck this time.
So that’s the project. Like last year, I’ll be using the blog to track my progress and keep me honest. I’ll use the same format as last year, which included a random inspirational reference image, the word count for the day and the total word count.
Thanks for indulging me!
Next up, PARIAHS, day one.
After all this time, for those of you down with e-readers or down with reading on your computer, THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING is available to buy if you missed out on the Kickstarter!
You can buy it now on Amazon, and if you prefer to read on an iPad, Nook, or anything other than a Kindle, you can also buy now from Lulu and if you don’t have an account with Lulu, don’t worry, you can easily buy through paypal via Lulu.
And for those of you that have already read, or are reading and might finish soon – I would really appreciate honest reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, and Lulu. Reviews can really make a difference, especially for self-published work, as buyers are naturally more hesitant.
Anyway, thanks for everything guys, more information and images and cool shit coming your way soon, I’ll make sure to update here, but if you haven’t been to the website, there’s tons of great information and images there as well. Oh, and if you want to read a twenty page preview – go here to read online or download the pdf.
BUY! BUY! BUY! 
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever, The Girl Who Would Be King
It’s Thursday…you know what that means…NEW chapters for THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING.
You can download the new chapters here: The Girl Who Would Be King Chapters 23 & 24
Or just read below.
If you want to read ALL of Part 1: Break Away (over 90 pages), head over to THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING page and download or read directly from the site.
A huge thanks to all of you for the massive success of the Kickstarter. I’m so in awe of your support and enthusiasm for this book. And of course thanks to all of you the book is not only being published but it will an amazing one of a kind hardcover illustrated edition – with gorgeous work by Stephanie Hans. Check out the Kickstarter and updates to see more of what’s to come.
Now onto those last pages…you guys know I ended this on a cliffhanger, right? I’M SORRY, OKAY!?!?!
I ride the rails trying to forget about Jasper. About Rachael and Sharon. My mother and father. And I focus on the idea of starting over until it’s the only thing I can see.
It sounds clean. It feels clean.
The idea of being someone else, maybe in a whole new city, with an entirely new name. With those things can I also somehow have a new past?
It’s Thursday…you know what that means…NEW chapters for THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING.
You can download the new chapters here: The Girl Who Would Be King Chapters 19 & 20
Or just read below.
If you want the entire story thus far (over 70 pages!), head over to THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING page and download or read directly from the site. Don’t forget to Donate to the KICKSTARTER – IT ENDS JULY 25th at 2:30pm US Eastern!
When I wake up in the abandoned building it’s late afternoon judging by the sun and I feel new, like I have been slumbering in a cocoon and am now emerging strong; like being reborn. My clothes look the opposite of new however, stiff and caked in dark blood. I unzip my bag and pull out some of the few items of clothing I own and change into them, testing my muscles as I stretch, my mind swimming about what I should do next.
I’ve had doubts about finding Jasper ever since he didn’t come for me six years ago, and they’ve only been compounded since things have gone so horribly awry for me since leaving the home. But when you hold onto something so tightly for twelve years it’s hard to let it go. Maybe impossible. He’s still all I want in this whole world. If he doesn’t want me around, he’ll have to tell me himself.
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever, The Girl Who Would Be King
It’s Tuesday…you know what that means…NEW chapters for THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING.
You can download the new chapters here: The Girl Who Would Be King Chapters 17 & 18
Or just read below.
If you want the entire story thus far (over 70 pages!), head over to THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING page and download or read directly from the site.
When I wake up it’s morning, though early judging by the shafts of soft light spilling into the room through the grimy window. I feel my jaw and find it healed to perfection. A hand gingerly feeling about my hip tells me it’s still a work in progress. Sharon’s still passed out on the floorboards nearby. I crawl over to her and take her pulse. It’s strong and steady.
I stand up unevenly, broken and still healing, but able to walk. Barely. I’m not sure what to do about Sharon. Hurting her has only made her more of a monster, but I don’t know if I know how to do anything but hurt.
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever, The Girl Who Would Be King
It’s Thursday…you know what that means…NEW chapters for THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING.
You can download the new chapters here: The Girl Who Would Be King Chapters 15 & 16
Or just read below.
If you want the entire story thus far (over 65 pages!), head over to THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING page and download or read directly from the site.
I wake up tied to a chair with wire cutting into my wrists painfully. They’re bleeding into my hands so much that they’re sticky and my vision’s blurry. The room I’m in is bare, with only an alarming amount of my blood pooling into the tread of my shoes and spreading across the scuffed hardwood beneath me. It’s night, but I have no idea how late and the room I’m in is a dark, empty black. There’s a bare bulb overhead but the light is off. Pulling on my wrists to see about freeing them is excruciating and so I stop doing it. I can hear arguing in another room.
“I thought you just wanted to hurt her,” says a male voice.
“I tried – did you not see me stab her like five times in the back – not to mention once in the kidneys?! The bitch is still alive. I’m telling you – I’ve been telling you for like, months – there’s something wrong with her!”
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever, The Girl Who Would Be King
It’s Tuesday…you know what that means…NEW chapters for THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING.
You can download the new chapters here: The Girl Who Would Be King Chapters 13 & 14
Or just read below.
If you want the entire story thus far, head over to THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING page and download or read directly from the site.
Turning a corner deep in thought I don’t notice anything until I see a shadow fall across my path and I almost smack right into her.
Sharon.
Apparently she hasn’t forgotten what I’d done to her and has been paying attention to when I would be released. She looks rough. Like the months since she left the home have been hard on her. I notice her hand that I crushed is still damaged. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that an orphan’s hand wasn’t properly repaired. My guilt doubles. Triples. She hides the hand underneath crossed arms when she sees me looking at it. I look up into her face and open my mouth to say I’m sorry but I can see it will mean nothing to her and turn away, determined not to get into another physical altercation with her.
“Not so fast!” she almost screams as she reaches out with her left hand and grabs the strap of my duffel bag, pulling me backward. I probably could have dodged her grab, but my guilt is keeping me pretty contained; I don’t want to hurt her again, I’ve obviously done enough to her. Ironically when I had crushed her hand I’d done it because I thought maybe it would keep her from hurting other people. From the look and feel of her now that has backfired horribly. As she pulls me toward her by my duffel strap she wraps her right arm around my neck, so that her face is right next to my ear. I am tense and ready to move, but letting her call the shots. Of course if I’d known she was going to stab me I probably would have been a little more proactive.
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever, The Girl Who Would Be King
So it’s pretty much ALWAYS awesome to be friends with Ross, but sometimes he really pulls out ALL the goddamn stops.
Some of you that frequent the blog regularly may remember this post, in which I talked a bit about some projects I was working on and wanted to work on, and one in particular that I conceived as a television show, but realizing nobody was going to let little ole me do a TV show, turned it into a novel. It’s the novel I wrote for this NaNo last November (you may remember my daily posts on that as well).
Tessa Battle and her axe The Black Dove by Kelly Thompson
Anyway, the sketch above was a quick little sketch that I did of the main character Tessa a long ways back.
Ross, who read the novel a few months back, for my birthday did the MOST GORGEOUS DRAWING EVER of Tessa.
Tessa Battle and her axe The Black Dove by Ross Campbell (and Kelly Thompson)
I am just in heaven over this. I have to tell you guys, ever since I started wanting to do comics as a teenager I always used to want to write and draw my own comics and graphic novels, but over the last six months, working with Stephanie, Ross, and Meredith (as well as a few other wonderful artists here and there) has made me realize how much I would rather have someone else fall in love with something of mine and breath their own life into it. It’s so damn rewarding I can barely describe it. Especially when I’ve been lucky enough to work with these insanely talented people.
So…THANK YOU ROSS. YOU ARE AN ULTIMATE BADASS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.
(Even Tessa says so).
Tags: things made of awesome
