It helps if you were part of the Sad Puppies or even better, Rabid Puppies event of several years ago, which basically thanks to Larry Correia, exposed the Hugos (writer’s award thing) for the giant inbred cesspool of pedophiles, incels and general human flotsam it is, and the actual awards being less prestigious than a squashed bottle-cap you might find in a gutter by the side of a highway.
Well, if you wondered how that is all going, you may want to head off to Larry’s site and read this long and schadenfreude filled post.
I like Larry and before I got banned so hard from twitter that I STILL can’t get on it,* we used to interact a little on it. And when the whole Portuguese are not white thing came around I sent him a helpful Dulux colour chart. he was always a good guy to interact with and his fisking posts are glorious to read.
Anyway, I had wandered off to his blog because I have a new book out tomorrow that is a pure indulgence.
I have had this idea for a little while and I punched this one out in a ridiculously short time, since it was really fun to write. I have not ever read a monsterhunter book, not because I don’t like Larry, but because the snippets I did read are not really to my taste, which is to take nothing away from Larry. A LOT of people like his books, so it’s clear it’s my tastes that are defective and certainly not his writing. But I was curious about the difference in style, since this latest book, which should be out tomorrow on the E-Store and by middle of next week on Amazon, is indeed a horror.
Kind of. One of the beta readers rightfully stated that this is not a Lovecraftian style horror, and he is quite correct. This is more of a “We have it all figured out and isn’t science grand and there is no such thing as monsters, all stuff of legends…” and then…
I mean it is a horror genere, but I also wrote it as realistically as possible if that situation actually happened to me (yes, the characters are Mary Sues of the worst order, as, I am told is Larry’s character in his monster hunter books). There are the usual Easter eggs for those in the know, but one aspect of my character is that in really serious situations, I invariably see a darkly humorous side.
You know that scene in the film 300 when the Spartans are hiding under their shields from all the arrows raining down on them and they start to laugh at the whole situation? I kind of get like that a little. So I wrote it like that and to me it’s also funny. To the beta readers too because I got a lot of positive feedback about both the realism and the humour. Oh… and the guns. They are described so that anyone who knows guns knows pretty much exactly what is being talked about in the book.
Anyway, the thinking about horror-style books, and Larry’s books and the parallels, though I am sure our styles are quite different, I wandered back over to his blog to have a read and I was not disappointed.
Now here’s hoping this kind of book does half as well as Larry’s do, because writing these types of books is actually not even work. It’s just raw fun to do for me too.
Subscribe or visit tomorrow and the next few days, as I will announce when it will be out. And if I manage I will even update the “books I wrote section”.
*As I still have the same device, I think they banned me at the IP level, or device address, or maybe hint of my magnetic aura, who knows, but that account is as unrecoverable as it’s possible to make it. If Elon knows about it he’s probably got it buried in a vault underground surrounded by caging spells.
Looking foward to reading it!