I’ve always wanted to write a full-on Frankenstein style monster, though, that is all about the bloodlust of a full-on predator whose existence is totally our own fault. I mean, STRANDED, HOWL, and BLOOD LAKE MONSTER are clearly those types of tales. Now, I’ve written monster/creature stories before.

A little shorter than what I prefer for a novel, though. Pure nightmare/things I think about in the shower ideas here. No, this one wasn’t inspired by any music. I really love it.įinally, I wrote a creature story that I’m calling CHUPACABRA for now. Anyway, SKIN DEEP is sexy (Lots of weird, awkward, killer sex), bloody and weird as well. It’s not often that music inspires whole stories, but I get ideas everywhere, as most of us do. Theory of a Deadman – Bad Girlfriend – YouTube She Ain’t Pretty (the song is catchy, guys), and Bad Girlfriend, by Theory of a Deadman. I guess the two songs together wove a few nuggets in my brain and voila! Lily, soul sucking succubus with a goal of total world domination was born.Īt the same time, I plotted a second novella, SKIN DEEP, that I haven’t subbed anywhere just yet. (Stop judging me) I was brainstorming ideas for a Rewind or Die story, when this song came on, followed by THAT SUMMER, by Garth Brooks. NORTHERN PIKES – She Ain’t Pretty – YouTube Now, the basic idea for SHE AIN’T PRETTY, was inspired by the song of the same title by the Northern Pikes. This is just after my birthday, so you guys should pre-order these now, so I feel loved. First, a bloodier, nastier version of CHURCH (called Church: Cult Edition), with a pretty cool new cover, and SHE AIN’T PRETTY, a sex-fueled nightmare that explores a different type of cult than we encounter in CHURCH. On February 25 th, Unnerving will be releasing two novellas. If I don’t, I’ll probably become a serial killer and I don’t think I’d be very good at that. That’s how I’m trying to view shit these days.

So, I’m choosing to view those rejections as wins. I appreciate these, and they make me feel like I’m doing something right, sort of, but they’re still rejections, so I get about half as bummed as when I get a form rejection. Several of those rejections, though, were the “We don’t usually provide feedback, but are making an exception because… **nice things follow**” kind of rejections. Mostly, I’ve been rejected, because that’s how this works. And I’ve subbed stories to several places over the past few months (for a while, I wasn’t subbing anywhere). I’ve FINALLY figured out a writing routine that allows me to get shit done without the house falling down around me.

Skin Deep by Renee Miller