It starts...

Yup, that's right. I wrote a book. Why is that strange, I hear you asking quietly even though you're not actually anywhere near me so I can't possibly hear your physical voice. It's strange, friend (we're friends now by the way. I just decided that.) because I am not a writer. I'm a filmmaker. More specifically, I'm an editor. As in, the one who sits in the dark room hunched in front of a computer clicking a mouse while a director says that a shot is a tenth of a second too long. Fun times.

Right but anyway, I wrote a book. And then I sent it to a bunch of friends to read who generally decided they enjoyed it. Which got me to thinking, why not try and get published? And that is where I find myself: in the spiral of insanity that is the world of trying to make it as a writer. As in, impossible. Well, I am just that particular brand of crazy to try and do the impossible so, instead of finding some sort of agent to...persuade (read: sleep with) to publish my book, I decided I'd go the good old do-it-yourself kind of way.

So, for anyone interested in how exactly to go from finished book to maybe someone paying you for said finished book, or anyone interested in reading the strange ramblings of a semi-writer and her stream of consciousness narrative, then congratulations! You hit the jackpot! If you're looking for insight into the fine craft of writing, ah no. Sorry. This is not the place for you. I have a film degree which means I can tell you exactly how terrible the movie "The Immortals" was but not necessarily how to fix it (hint: change everything). If I had a literature degree that entitles me to sit in Starbucks with a cappuccino and a Macbook and scoff at everyone else but sadly, I do not. I don't even drink coffee. And if I did I definitely wouldn't pay six dollars for it because seriously, who does that?

But I digress. This blog (I hate that word by the way) is about the book I wrote. Which is titled, easily enough, 'Witch Bloom'. Because the book is my response to the 'Twilight' phenomena and as such has to have, not necessarily in order: witches, werewolves, vampires, liches, naga, necromancers, and a psychic because why not. Did I mention I was a supernatural and mythology nerd? Yeah. So I wrote a book for the person too old for "Twilight" but just a bit too jaded for any of the multitude of vampire novels available now. Heavy doses of humor, cynicism, action, adventure, horror, a touch of romance, and a reoccurring Fedora joke. Wait no, take out that last bit, that's Indiana Jones. But everything else is there, I promise.