Some newly published fiction: In addition to my novel prequel on Wattpad or Inkitt, short story “Fleeting Delights” has been published by Sheepshead Review. You can also find what is perhaps my most controversial story to date, “All About Asses,” online from Every Day Fiction. Don’t judge too harshly until you consider the ending that all humans share…
Confronting Issues
Center of the Subculture
Even ‘Emos’ have fun.
If you write a book about Emos, I bet you won’t call them that. Does your novel follow a Psycho? Maybe you describe her as an alternative thinker. If nerds are the heroes of your story, or for that matter vandals or drug abusers, then your story—almost by definition—is trying to make them seem more heroic.
You’re writing to shift the literary ‘center’ of their subculture.
The problem faced by champions of a subculture (let’s call them ‘writers’) is that the center of it starts in the world’s metatext. In other words, the subculture already has a bad reputation… not just in our world but in other literature, in nasty jokes and riddles, and in casual putdowns from the mouths of cops and parents. The job of a YA champion, then, is to shift the center of the subculture into the story’s text. Continue reading
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Award-Winning Novels!
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| Snack runs in Utah just got deadly
Bold Satire Crimes of Convenience:
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Jessica has become just psychic enough to get herself killed
YA Speculative Mystery Too Much Information:
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Book Pipeline Semifinalist
Read a sample chapter from Too Much Information: top ten of 1,984 published and unpublished entries in the 2017 Book Pipeline Competition. When a high-school girl begins seeing crimes as sinister labels in everyone’s eyes, she must expose her psychiatrist as a murderer… even when nobody believes there is a victim!
Too Much Information: Book 1 of the Labels Series
Jessica has become just psychic enough to get herself killed…
Chapter 3: A Bit Squishier still featured on The Write Launch.
Words from K. Alan 