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 during their rock concert.  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.

Sold Out should see print in 2013.  The two Gantlet Brother novels that are currently in print are The Nuclear Suitcase and The Gantlet Brothers Greatest Hits. You can find them at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and at pulpwork.com.

Works in Progress

...still chronicling the potential demise of the Gantlet Brothers.  The Gantlet Brothers: Sold Out is at 88k words and counting.  I should be wrapping up the first draft next week.

As for the this year, look for The Island of Lost Souls within the next couple of months.  This is my take on the Arthurian legend and my reading of Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur leads me to believe that Arthur and Merlin were less than paragons of virtue and goodness. Still, we do have a pair of heroes in the brother knights, Balan and Balin, from North Umberland.