A Mythik New Year

Happy New Year, everybody! The ol' Mythik Blog has been neglected for a while, but the Underwater Cave-dwelling Sea Monkeys who write this stuff are back to work and have their typewriters warmed up and ready to go.

November was very busy with NaNoWriMo, and although I didn't "win," I did get 45k or so words, which I considered a success and a very good start to the Land Of Lor novel. It is shaping up to be a very fun twist on classic, personal Sword & Sorcery combined with an overall Epic Fantasy feel. Although the main characters and plot lines have been in my head for many years, it has already taken a few unexpected turns resulting in several painted-in plot corners, ha ha. I was so busy writing, I didn't keep up with the planned blog updates. Oh well, it's a trade-off I'll accept :)

December was busy with lots of work at the day job and, of course, family and holiday time. I was able to do a test shoot of video for an upcoming Weird West Thriller.

Screen grab from video test shoot. T3i camera with 30 year old Kiron 28mm lens @ f2.

Keeping Up With The Mythik

Well, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that I have been neglecting the blog - although some might consider that the good news ;) The good news is that the reason I have been neglecting the blog is because I have been busy writing and working on cool projects.

June 1st is right around the corner!

A quick update of Mythik covers & content. For some reason, it really helps me to see what the end result is while I'm working. Don't tell anybody, but I even cut & pasted my thumbnail covers into the Kindle Top 10. That's right, I'm visualizing my way to success ;) Hopefully people will like the stories, too.

Okay, we've got a preliminary cover for issue #3.

And this is how the thumbnails will look:

        

I've also sent off the files for a test print of the old-fashioned dead-tree version of issue #1. Hopefully it will look sufficiently pulpy, yet readable.  With Baxter's help, I've mapped out issues 4 - 6, too.

Here's the tentative plan:

June 1 - Issue #1

July 6 - Issue #2

August 3 - Issue #3

September 7 - Issue #4

October 5 - Issue #5

October 28 - 10 Guns Against the West (Mythik Weird West Novel - crossover from characters & story in issue #2)

November 2 - Issue #6

December 14 - Secret Novel (sword & sorcery crossover from characters & story in issues #3 & #4)

Some time next year - Secret Novel (science fiction) & more Mythik Imagination

Also in there somewhere will be a graphic novel (or is it comic book?) and podiobooks. The podiobooks should come relatively soon.

There, now my vast multitude of fans know what to look forward to! Ha ha.

Hmm, I suppose I should get back to working on actual content ;)

eBook Cover Art & Release Date

Happy fantastic friday.  The underwater cave-dwelling sea-monkeys in the 'ol Mythik Art Department have been hard at work.  They've put together a rough composition of the Mythik Imagination #2 cover.  It is a work-in-progress, but here it is so far:

What do you think?

All three stories will follow a Weird West theme.  Everybody may be gaga over Cowboys & Aliens and Cowboys & Zombies and Zombies and anything, etcetera, but "The Silver Skull" will tell the tale of a Bounty Hunter who doesn't hunt zombies, but IS a zombie.  'Tis sort of a Zombies Are People Too kind of perspective.  "The Schofield Crew" is about a scientist in the 1930's who sends a detective back in time to the wild west to investigate one of the world's greatest mysteries.  "Requiem For The Wild West" shows us what happens when an elderly gunfighter has a showdown with a Nazi officer in WW2 era France.

I know what you're thinking.  That's great, but what about Mythik #1, right?  Well that's the second part of today's post.  The official release date for Mythik Imagination #1 is June 1st.  Kind of like a space shuttle launch, I've been setting dates in my head and then postponing them for various reasons.  But now it's official and no more postponing!  Wahoo, June 1st.

And finally, I've decided that Mythik #3 will also follow a theme:  Savage Sea Stories!  Yep, pirate ships and UFO's and a lot more ;)

Thanks, be Mythik and stay tuned!