Writings

Finished First Draft of Zombie

September 25, 2012 by Admin Leave a Comment

creature-black-lagoon — Creature from the Black Lagoon. Do movie posters get better than this? I think not!

Yesterday I finished the first draft of Zombie [working title]. I was expecting to feel super pleased, like something momentous would happen once I hit the save button. But after a little internal high-five moment, the feeling passed pretty quickly.

I also started editing it today. I’ve finished the first chapter (although the first chapter is super short), so I’ve only got fifteen or so chapters to go. I’m not sure how long it will take me, but judging by how quickly I did the first chapter, it should go smoothly.

Of course nothing ever goes as planned, so who really knows? Especially since it’s school holidays here, and, I can barely think straight with the kids fighting each other and going crazy, let alone fix up my novel.

But we will see.

I’m hoping to have it out to my beta reader by the middle of next month. That’s probably an ambitious plan, but it’s good to have a date to shoot for.

After that it’s off to editing and cover design.

All up, I’m really hoping that it goes smoothly enough so that it will be for sale on Amazon by Christmas. Because isn’t that what every one wants Santa to bring them: a sad zombie story? I thought so.

My New Author Blog

September 19, 2012 by Admin Leave a Comment

attack-50foot-woman — Awesome Retro Horror Movie Poster. This image ROCKS!

So I’ve finally got around to setting up my author blog. My publisher has been telling me that I need to do it for a while, but I’ve been so busy actually writing books that I haven’t had a chance.

But since the first draft of my novel is only a fingertip away I thought I’d take a break and get this thing set up.

To be honest, I don’t actually know what I’ll be using this blog for. What do other authors use their blogs for? I don’t have a fan base (yet) so I can’t see why anyone even remotely interested would come and see what I’m up to.

But I guess that’s not for me to decide. It’s for other’s to come along and decide for themselves if they’d like to read it or not. Oh look at me – I’m rambling about nonsense already and I’m only on the fourth paragraph. Silly me.

Well I guess the first thing to do is to introduce myself. My name is Trista Frank and I (currently) write stories and books about creepy stuff.

My first official novel (which is due to be released in December 2012) is a zombie horror novel. As I mentioned above, I’ve just about finished the first draft. After that I’ve got to go and fix it up (right now it’s a bit of a mess) but that’s the fun part for me. Making it goooood. I like doing revisions – it’s what I do best.

Then I get to send it off to my publisher who’ll get it edited and get a cool cover design. I have no idea what design they’ll think suits it. Obviously something creepy, but since I’m only ‘slightly’ artsy, it’s not something I’d be ever able to do on my own.

Finally it’ll be up for sale.

For the first three months, it will be in ebook version only, and exclusive to Amazon. After that they’ll start sending it to the other retailers.

If it goes well (fingers crossed) they said they’d also do a print version. I really hope so, because as a writer there is nothing better than holding a book that you’ve written in your hands. It is very trippy.

I don’t know how much they’ll be marketing it at. They are pretty cool though, and we both believe in keeping prices low for readers, so I can’t see it’ll be for too much.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. I need to finish it first before I can even think about people buying it.

So that’s what I plan on doing right now, getting back to finishing the first rough draft so that I can start on making it the best novel I can make it.

Thanks for visiting my blog and reading my first post.

All the best,
T. Frank.