Serenity Now!
Been a long time, huh? I blame last week’s Rant “MIA” on school vacation. It was kids, kids, kids all week, including a day when my oldest made a movie with seven friends (I was “craft services,” providing PB&J for the troops). The movie was a military action adventure involving a vacationing colonel, his replacement’s poor management skills, and the arrival of “GI Repo” to take the fatigues right off the colonel’s back. No, I’m not making this up; he did.
This past week, I was playing catch up, mostly editing “Victor’s Bride,” which I’ve decided needs to get out more. I completed the MS two years ago, sent it to two agents, then to several contests (contests—that’s a rant for another day), but that’s about it. So now I’m going to start to market it. As usual, I’m not sure how to categorize the novel. It’s a paranormal and there are romantic elements, but it’s nowhere near a “category.” It’s got sex, murder, cranky old people, a muscular and caustic hero, a sexy heroine, and a creepy, seemingly immortal villain. It’s funny, it’s dark. The best I can do to cram it into a category is to say it’s got a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” sensibility and hope that interests agents and editors enough to give it a try.
Speaking of “Buffy” and movie-making, non-writing life just got wicked exciting—the trailer for “Buffy” creator Joss Whedon’s “Serenity” has been released. Serenity’s based on Whedon’s criminally canceled TV show “Firefly,” one of our family faves. The Serenity preview was the first one up when we went to see “Hitchhiker’s Guide” yesterday—me, hubby, the kids and two friends (fact of life: any time you go anywhere with a pre-teen/teen, you always have two friends).
And yes, that was me who let out that piercing, girly-girl shriek of delight when the preview came on (well, okay, it was really prompted by the sight of the lead, “Captain Tightpants” himself, Nathan Fillion, who should play the hunky, conflicted hero in every movie made from now on and would neatly fill the tight pants of my “Victor’s Bride” hero). Serenity is a space adventure that will be so much more because writer/director Joss Whedon (who wrote “Toy Story”) is a fabulous writer, so adept at creating compelling characters, witty dialogue, tense, thrilling drama that I can barely contain my jealousy…er…professional envy.
Okay, enough shilling for Serenity, released by Universal Pictures, opening September 30 at a theater near you… On with shilling my own work.
This past week, I was playing catch up, mostly editing “Victor’s Bride,” which I’ve decided needs to get out more. I completed the MS two years ago, sent it to two agents, then to several contests (contests—that’s a rant for another day), but that’s about it. So now I’m going to start to market it. As usual, I’m not sure how to categorize the novel. It’s a paranormal and there are romantic elements, but it’s nowhere near a “category.” It’s got sex, murder, cranky old people, a muscular and caustic hero, a sexy heroine, and a creepy, seemingly immortal villain. It’s funny, it’s dark. The best I can do to cram it into a category is to say it’s got a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” sensibility and hope that interests agents and editors enough to give it a try.
Speaking of “Buffy” and movie-making, non-writing life just got wicked exciting—the trailer for “Buffy” creator Joss Whedon’s “Serenity” has been released. Serenity’s based on Whedon’s criminally canceled TV show “Firefly,” one of our family faves. The Serenity preview was the first one up when we went to see “Hitchhiker’s Guide” yesterday—me, hubby, the kids and two friends (fact of life: any time you go anywhere with a pre-teen/teen, you always have two friends).
And yes, that was me who let out that piercing, girly-girl shriek of delight when the preview came on (well, okay, it was really prompted by the sight of the lead, “Captain Tightpants” himself, Nathan Fillion, who should play the hunky, conflicted hero in every movie made from now on and would neatly fill the tight pants of my “Victor’s Bride” hero). Serenity is a space adventure that will be so much more because writer/director Joss Whedon (who wrote “Toy Story”) is a fabulous writer, so adept at creating compelling characters, witty dialogue, tense, thrilling drama that I can barely contain my jealousy…er…professional envy.
Okay, enough shilling for Serenity, released by Universal Pictures, opening September 30 at a theater near you… On with shilling my own work.
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