You Don't Know Jack

Up from the Grave

         Good morning, friends and followers, and I hope it finds you well. With a title like that, you wouldn't be wrong in guessing that it finds me capricious. You see, I'm not here to offer an exposé on my beloved horror genre. I'm not even offering a story. So, what, you may ask, is coming "up from the grave?"
         Funny you should ask. Back last September, I offered a forum, the idea being that you could talk to me, ask questions, open topics of interest to you, and so forth, and I would reply. That never really took off, and around mid-December I gave it up as a distraction that didn't have a worthwhile payoff, it garnering a single rating of three stars and going weeks between comments. So I marked it private with a view toward deleting it altogether if no one protested its disappearance.
         Well, no one protested and I didn't miss it any more than anyone else did, but there's a little snag in my whole get-rid-of-it program: It's been nominated for a Quill Award in the Best New Forum category. I don't know who nominated it ~ that's forbidden ~ and I don't think it's the sort of thing that will finish in the top ten, but someone does, and what a slap in the face to the nominator to find that they thought something was worthy of a Quill, and my response to that is to delete the item. Add to that the fact that I'm curious as to how it might stack up, and it is, quite literally, coming up from the grave. I think I know how it will fare, but it isn't for us to decide how others view our efforts, so here it is in all it's glory... or something:

FORUM

Scribblers' Den  (18+) A backstreet tavern where scribblers can meet to discuss their Craft. #2347527 by Jack of Diamonds

         I have two other active projects that I'd like to keep in the public eye. One is that I'm transcribing Book III of Beyond the Rails, which is rapidly approaching completion:

BOOK

Beyond the Rails 3: Slayer of Darkness  (18+) A novel of adventure in the skies of colonial Africa. Work in Progress. #2347483 by Jack of Diamonds

         Finally, I have a long-unfinished story that I am working on in an attempt to bring my "muse," whatever that is, up from the grave. It's a fantasy with a large nautical component, and some widely-scattered characters who are slowly being brought together for what I hope will be a slam-bang finish:

BOOK

The Orphan Princess  (18+) Politics and Adventure in an Ocean of Fantasy. Current project under construction. #2350506 by Jack of Diamonds

         And that's 30 for today. Hope you all have a wonderful Sunday. You guys are the best!

Stay inspired,
     Jack