Announcing Twisted Tales from a Wandering Mind!

With my stories complete I am on the hunt for an artist or artists to put something horrific together for the covers.  I am also in search of an editor.  If you happen to be interested in doing either of these things, feel free to drop me a line with information and pricing.

Stalled out

Since I've returned home my writing progress has shrunk significantly. I imagine this is largely due to me once again having the distractions of friends around as well as full time employment. That being said - No Excuses!
By the end of April I pledge to have completed the writing portion of my next short story collection. So here it is, my pre-emptive announcement of "Twisted Tales From a Wandering Mind". Unlike My Darker Dreams, the Twisted Tales stories will all be from the horror genre and will also all be made available for individual purchase in addition to being available as a compilation.

Stories featured in Twisted Tales from a Wandering Mind will include:
Headphones - After a frightening Halloween encounter headphones take on a special meaning
The Trenton Subway Massacre - The journal entries of a man on the way to collapse
The Dark House - A new family moves into a house that definitely is not a home
Tripping to a Fall - An evening of expirimentation leads to a mind shattering conclusion
Parabnormal Investigators - Ghost hunters stir up more than they bargained for in an abandoned Southern plantation
Undivided Attention - A true expression of love
Bloodhound - A private eye can find any person in the world until he is put on the trail of a man who may or may not be human.
New Sunrise - Medical research crosses lines of life, death and morality.
Emergency Line - A government project succeeds beyond anyone's wildest dreams and leads to terrifying results.

I look forward to having more work available for everyone in the near future!

Josh Kemp

Home!

After several months traveling the USA in the cramped confines of my car... home at last! I have a whole bevy of stories that have been receiving love while I was on the road and I look forward to getting them submitted, read, and hopefully published. A few select items may make their way up onto Smashwords, B&N, and Amazon. I am also looking forward to getting involved with a critique group in the area. There it is, my quick update to any loyal readers who happen to be out there.
Until next time, this is Joshua Kemp, signing off.

Undivided Attention

A short, in reality very short, horror story of mine was picked up! Hip hip huzzah! Undivided Attention is now up at Microhorror.com.
Outside of that I have been getting some fantastic work done on science fiction pieces and hopefully will be placing those shortly or submitting them to writing contests. Previews will be up on plotgap shortly!
Until next time, Josh Kemp signing off for plotgap publishing.

New Years Resolutions!

My New Years Resolutions... Mostly writing based, so I thought I might share them here. Large thanks for inspiration goes to J.A. Konrath (sp?) and his "New Writers Resolutions" blog post.

- I will finish the Nine Tales of Tybalt
- I will always have three stories in submission and a fourth that I am working on.
- I will join or start a critique group
- I will finish every story that I begin
- I will blog regularly (for real this time!)
- I will contribute to my writing funds daily
- I will self promote
- I will finish Deathless
and of course the two classics
- I will get back in shape
- I will floss

My Darker Dreams

Well, it has been some time since I put out My Darker Dreams, and a while since I promised myself and the world I would update this blog more regularly. Currently I've been doing my best to refine several of my longer short stories that I hope to have epublished on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords soon. As well as working on a novel. As well as trying to finish Deathless. As well as trying to write a screenplay. I think I may be overloading myself, sheesh!

For the foreseeable future I will be devoting myself primarily to short stories, with some background work going on for my Great American Novel(tm). Expect to hear more in that regard soon. More specifically my horror shorts are the closest to being ready for an audience, at least in my estimation. Muahahaha.

Night Shift and Elves

Night shift at a hotel gives me plenty of time to write! I'll be devoting some of that towards Deathless and hopefully making some major headway soon. In the mean time let me tell you a bit about elves:
The elves of Deathless are one of the two primordial races, with the other being the giants. The primordials were given the ability to adapt to their surroundings over time, and so the elves and giants who stayed in any one location would slowly change to become more in tune with their surroundings.
This all changed two thousand years ago. Using the unwitting Orazio, then after named the Wolf, as his pawn the dark god Nyr tainted the elvish evolutionary process. No longer would the elves grow in harmony with their homes. Instead, after Nyr's curse, they would inevitably transform into the dreaded No'heam, savage predators that could kill dozens of men single handed. For centuries the ignorant elves lost themselves to the beast inside them and for centuries the Midlands were scourged.
Now the elves must live a nomadic life, unwelcome wherever they travel due to the curse their whole race bears. These are the elves of Deathless.