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Genre: Young Adult & Youth
About loxoscelesLocation: Pittsburgh, PA Home Region: Age:28 Favorite novels: Research for this year's novel included Arabian Nights, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales, Coraline Favorite music: silence when I'm writing, but otherwise: Decemberists, Mountain Goats. Current fave album: Roseanne Cash, "The List" Non-noveling interests: My new baby! also science writing, roller derby, gardening/farming/cooking, biology, linux, making toys, photography, running, |
Joined: Octubre 5, 2008 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 29 NaNoWriMo buddies: 19
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Brief Author Bio: This is my second year doing NaNo - last year's novel came in at 63K words and was finished a week before deadline. I'm upping the ante this year with a 75K goal that will be broken into two children's stories ("middle grade" - protagonists age 10 or so). My son Ajax will be just a month old when NaNo starts (born Sept 30). I decided to do a children's story this year with the idea that someday he might want to read it. |
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Synopsis: Grandma Was a Werewolf / Jack and the Ghosts
Grandma Was a Werewolf (37,500 words):
Ella thinks she's in for a boring summer of hanging around her aunt and uncle's farm, but finds that there are elves in the aunt's garden, and her grandmother is a retired werewolf. The trouble begins when her bratty cousin Jack finds the belt Grandma used to wear to turn herself into a werewolf - but then it falls into the wrong hands, and soon another wolf is terrorizing the small town. Can Jack and Ella find the monster before it strikes again?
Jack and the Ghosts (37,500 words):
I keep changing my mind what this story is about. Also changing titles. The only constant is ghosts.
Excerpt: Grandma Was a Werewolf / Jack and the Ghosts
When I got out to one of the streetlights on Main Street I unwrapped my sweater to see if I was still bleeding or if I got a lot of lint in the wound or whatever. I was also ready to find out if I had broken bones or ripped tendons or if it was just skin.
I stopped dead when I saw it. There was blood, and lint, and scariest of all – hair.
Not normal arm hair, but hair that was gray and coarse and looked like fur. It looked exactly like the wolf fur that was on the strap, the wolf fur that Rover got when he wore the magic collar, the fur that was on the giant wolf I had just captured.
I was turning into a werewolf, and I didn't know how long I had left.
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