Doing a Thing

Alliteration Ink is having a Kickstarter! What Fates Impose is an anthology about fortune-telling (be it real, fake, or tragically misinterpreted), containing LOTS of excellent writers, and also me*, for some reason. I’m super excited about this, because for the first time in my life, and after having backed some thirty-odd other projects**, I get to provide backer rewards for one of the levels.

This is my crazy-looking urn thing that I bought at a yard sale for like a dollar.

This is my crazy-looking urn thing, filled with pretty much every fortune-cookie fortune I ever got.

At the $5 pledge level, I draw a fortune from my crazy-looking urn thing and I take a photograph and I tweet you the photograph. This fortune is now YOUR fortune. I can’t promise it won’t be just a platitude (SO DISAPPOINTING***) or that there won’t be any stains from years-old General Tso’s. I also can’t say where, or in the presence of what, the fortune will be photographed. It’s a strange world. Anything could happen.

I DEFINITELY can’t predict whether or not it will come true in a horrifying way, so if it does, please let me know! We are all about customer service here at Chez Davis.

This is meant to be a tight-budget, support-it-but-don’t-need-to-read-it pledge level, but if you want the book as well, you can boost your pledge and add on a book, in electronic or print-and-electronic formats. Details in the FAQ. I’ll be sending these in the month before the book release date. If you don’t have Twitter but desperately want a photographed fortune out of a crazy-looking urn thing, we’ll work out a way to email you. No duplicates, guaranteed. Second chances to reverse a terrible fortune not included.

You can find out more or become a backer, right here.

*My story is called The Scry Mirror. It begins: The day Tom Bright got wed, I ran home and got a poker from the hearth and smashed the scry mirror until it was a thunderstorm of glass all falling at my feet. Then I ran out back to the fish pond and sat there on a log wishing I was dead.

**Last night I made dinner using hot sauce sent to me by a stranger from the Internet. That’s cool, right?

***Suggested appendages for improving your fortune:
“…in bed.”
“…or else.”
“…with an axe.”
“…but at what cost?”

 

The Next Big Thing

*looks under couch cushion* *stares* Holy cow, I have a blog.

John Boden tagged me for this A MILLION YEARS AGO and now, at last, I actually have something to talk about.

1. What is the working title of your next book?

Wolves and Witches

2. Where did the idea come from for the book?

megengelhardt and I looked at each other and said, “Geez, we’ve sold a lot of fairy tale retellings. Let’s put ‘em together and see how many. Hey! That’s, like, enough for a book.”

3. What genre does your book fall under?

Fantasy, I guess? I feel like darkish fairy-tale retellings are their own subgenre.

4. What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?

Cast of dozens!

5. What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?

I think the official line is: “In Wolves and Witches, sisters Amanda C. Davis and Megan Engelhardt weave sixteen stories and poems out of familiar fairy tales, letting them show their teeth.”

I have been describing it as: “We did a thing!”

6. Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

Neither; it was placed at World Weaver Press without an agent.

7. How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?

The stories in this book were written between 2009 and 2012. We tinkered for quite a few months adding new things as we made new sales and got the rights released. I think we started talking about it in the middle of 2010 and finalized it toward the end of 2012. The release date is February 19.

8. What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?

Any of the darkish fairytale retellings. Several of these pieces started out in Enchanted Conversation.

9. Who or what inspired you to write this book?

We love fairy tales and dark stories, and it sure didn’t hurt to see calls for submission for that kind of thing time and again.

10. What else about the book might pique the reader’s interest?

If you buy a copy, our grandma says she’ll sign it for you.

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