Competition Times!

09/11/2015

Become a character!

I've recently been contacted to do a written series (with the proceeds going to a charity of my choosing), and I was in the mood to involve the folks who read my blog.

The story is planned to be called 6, and focuses on:

"A mysterious boat which disappeared in the 70's during a horrific storm comes back on the radar. The hold of the ship now contains exactly 666 children...who weren't on the cruiser before."

It's a pretty self contained,straight up story; a lot more emphasis on horror and the like. I'm going to be doing a little thing on my twitter (https://twitter.com/C_to_the_G), however, at the end of the month, which'll jump start a competition to be a character in the book, who goes on the cruise alone in the 1970's before it vanished. 

ALSO, if it can be done, I'll be donating the sales of that series to a charity which'll be decided later, but the question at the minute is...

what charity should the sales go to, and why? 

Leave a comment here, or on my twitter, to be entered.

(6 will begin production next year, and will be sold in four parts *at the moment*, consisting of five chapters each.)

SO here’s a competition for you.

I’m going to be seeing which novel to write in November but need YOUR help (que rousing speech and such), and I’m going to leave it up to you to decide which one I do. Just leave a tweet at @C_to_the_G, and give me your answer, and why.

Now you might be thinking, like, “why?”

Yes. Because the best answer will get a free copy of the finished manuscript, along with some maybe deleted stuff, and will also BECOME A CHARACTER in it. I’m not saying you’ll have a happy ending, obviously, but you’ll be there regardless. You’ll be getting stuff that’ll be extra, too, when the book goes on general sale on Kindle later next year. Plus, you’ll be mentioned in the dedication at the beginning of the book, just to sweeten the pie.

So, the options:

·         Eldritch:

A lovecraftian apocalyptic tale, following the first few months of the end of the world following something waking up and ruining the world. It follows, primarily, Toper Jones; but also shows the effects of martial law, insanity, and also human nature in times of crises. When a small community begins to crumble, eldritch horrors both ineffable and more man-made begin to surface.

·         God’s Acre:

A small graveyard in Minnesota has a secret: The dead folk there don’t stay dead. A single watcher looks after then, making sure they don’t leave the graveyard, and putting them back in the ground before sunrise (because “something bad will happen to them”). Alongside this, a troubled young runaway woman who can see the dead makes her way across Texas, helping the recently deceased move on –one way or another.

So those are the two options.  Remember, just go to @C_to_the_G and tell me what book to do, and why. It can be a funny reason, a serious one, a heartfelt one. And remember, you can read a small short story that was going to be a part of “God’s Acre” right here on this site. Just head across to the Short Story page and go to “Oh.Hi.”

Deadline is the 1st of November, book should be expected December/early January next year.