Excited to Co-Author Some GameLit

My initial artistic renderings of the Main Character, Meg, and her in-game avatar, Mithabel, an elf with straight, black hair, because she can.

It’s been over a decade since I wrote my novella, You Died on Tuesday, a story about a young woman confused about a special ability she didn’t know she had. I won’t say more about that story, since I might still do something with it, the rights having reverted to me five years ago. The story was accepted for publication when I was only 17. Imagine the thrill. I was on my way to stardom. My little novella was only the beginning of a blossoming writing career. Hah. What a fool believes. I won’t bore you with the details of the last eleven years, but my novella wasn’t published and I’ve not written any other stories since then even worth querying. The dream didn’t die, it was simply staying up all night crying itself to sleep.

But things are looking up. Call it providence. Call it persistence. I’m co-authoring a GameLit novel. For real. I’m not at liberty yet to say much about it, but I can’t stay quiet. Brainstorming has been a blast. I feel rejuvenated, alive. I say that not just because I know my co-author will read this. 🙂 We have a (secret) working title, an outline, and collectively over 30K words in a first draft. We’re each writing different parts of the novel. We’ve already merged the first dozen chapters into a flowing narrative. It’s kind of crazy. A good kind of crazy. When we’re finished, there’s already a plan in place for publishing the book. Will it sell? I don’t know. Right now I don’t care. It needs to happen, for my mental well-being. Please, God, let it happen this time.