State of the Minion Address!

For the month of November, I’ll only be updating the blogs (yes, plural) once a week. That means my mains site (www.lazyliteratus.com) will be updated once – likely on Mondays – and my tea site (www.steepstories.com) will be updated on Wednesdays.

Reason being, I have a couple of fiction writing projects in the wings. One “might” be lucrative, the other’s a bit of a QuasiWriMo (half-commital NaNoWriMo) project.

I’m not officially participating in NaNo this year, either. But I do have a lot on my plate…if that kinda counts. So, let QuasiWriMo commence! Again…

First project: Still hammering out a Dark Crystal pitch story for a possible novel contract. It’s a contest of sorts. They call it an “author quest”. Pish…it’s a contest, BUT one I want to enter. The title for for my possible novel is “The Dark Crystal: Shards of Unity” – kind of a “Seven Samurai”-meets-“Dark Crystal” yarn. The pitch story is called “The Mystic Hunt”.

Second thing on the docket is collecting all my tea fiction together – both complete and incomplete – into one compilation for a possible e-book. Included in this anthology will be the following stories:

-“The Legend of Lapsang” – My first foray into tea fiction, ever. And it was batshit crazy.

-“Oolong Way from Gnome” – The epic story of the gnome who traveled from India to China with the Journey to the West gang of legend.

-“Fortune and the Goddess” – Arguably my most “famous” and controversial short story to date.

-“Border Line” – A story that came to me in a dream about monsters, Mexico…and mate’.

-“Breakfast, the Irish Way” – A story I wrote for another anthology about a corrupt senator’s run-in with an Irish crime syndicate in Boston…and his ties to it. Yes, tea does play a roll. A rather twisted one.

-“Castleton: Tea Gun for Hire” – The story of a James Bond-like tea consultant and his mission to resolve a conspiracy about a tea estate, a huge coporation, and a lost city.

– “Knights of the Apocalypse” – The descendants of the Earl of Grey and Viscount Petersham infiltrate a zombie and mutant infested Scotland to save a very special…tree.

“Tall Tea Tales of a Lazy Literatus” – My brief foray into fictional tea reviews compiled as one novella. Characters included me, a gnome, and a zombie Robert Fortune.

“The Tea Trolley” – A short story that closes out the collection devoted to the passing of a very dear Twitter friend to the tea community.

In addition: I’ll be launching a tea review poetry Tumblr in the coming weeks. Not sure when, yet.

That’s about it. I swear.