foxxcub: (better with a bow)
aleesha ([personal profile] foxxcub) wrote2013-12-11 05:29 pm

SO, THIS IS A THING!

Hiya, LJ.

So, thanks to a few great fandom peeps, I've decided to try and write an original novel for this publisher, specifically for their "Coming of Age" genre. There are open calls for YA LGBT short stories, but, ahahaha, the idea I came up with is going to be WAY LONGER THAN 12K. I'm honestly super, super excited about it, because seriously, me getting paid to write high school AUs IRL? WHY NOT?

I don't want to say I'm putting fanfic on hold in the new year; I don't think I will, necessarily. I still want to work on "Copper" and "Bylines", but I also want to tell the story of Jake Abbott, who definitely isn't gay and definitely isn't into Carson Green, who moves back to town after six years and suddenly isn't the scrawny little blond kid Jake remembers. He's still scowly and sharp with Jake--he clearly remembers Jake picking on him as kids, even though their parents made them walk to the library together for summer reading program--but then there's the issue of Carson now being five inches taller than Jake and built like an athlete (Carson would rather die than play team sports, however; the son of a bio-chem professor mother and a pharmaceutical salesman father gets into science stuff early on). Jake doesn't have crush, though. He's too busy being a star baseball player and pretending that he doesn't have leather-bound journals full of writings for his future novel, or that he doesn't love to read all the books stacked in his room. Carson still thinks Jake's that cocky kid he grew up with, and Jake wants to keep believing Carson's just a dweeby nerd who hates him.

So...there's that. I think that is a story I would like to write. And read. :D?

[identity profile] ericadawn16.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Are they still going to accept it although over their word count?

If it's under 115,000 words, you can also submit it to Wild Child Publishing.

http://wildchildpublishing.com/

The world really needs more LBTQA fictional teens. I think Rick Riordan definitely proved how welcome they could be.

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm submitting it as a novel, which is 20k to 50k or so, I think.

[identity profile] kellifer-fic.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yes please - *grabby hands*

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahahaha <333

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN ON MY RIDIC EMAILS.

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
DONE AND DONE.

[identity profile] ignipes.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like a freakin' adorable story. Best of luck!

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It's, uh, basically everything I love to write in one story?

[identity profile] zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
I WOULD TOTALLY READ THAT. :DDDD

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
NICE. :D

[identity profile] johanirae.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds brilliant, and I would buy the heck outta that book!
Best of luck! :D

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Awww, thank you, hon!

(P.S. your Christmas card might be late; I ran out of postage and have yet to send out my overseas cards. Just FYI!)

[identity profile] reinventweather.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
!!!! ahhh so great!!! like how am i already having feelings about carson and jake? because i am. because i am.

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I have way too many feelings about them already, too. (Should I mention that Carson has always secretly had a thing for Jake but thinks Jake's straight and also that he doesn't like him anyway??)

[identity profile] snottygrrl.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
i am sooper excited about this. ♥ ♥

(no pressure)

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm super excited as well! Thanks for finally getting my butt in gear. <33

[identity profile] nausicaa83.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
I would definitely buy it! *________*

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
WOO!
shakeskp: (Ewan - Squee)

[personal profile] shakeskp 2013-12-12 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
Not only would I buy it, I'd love if I were the one translating it in French~ (I work sometimes for them as a translator :D)

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh wow! That's a whole compliment, haha, thank you!

[identity profile] immoral-crow.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Fantastic news! I obviously still want all the words of Clint and Phil being stupid about their feelings, but would love to read that as well!

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I STILL WANT THEM, TOO! Never fear. <33

[identity profile] nerdwegian.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
LITERALLY REDUCED TO JUST CAPSLOCK AND FLAILING AND LOOK CARSON HAS A LAST NAME NOW TOO DHGSAG \o/

[identity profile] foxxcub.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I LITERALLY JUST DRIVE AROUND IN MY CAR AND SAY NAMES OUT LOUD TO SEE HOW THEY SOUND.

[identity profile] hypertwink.livejournal.com 2013-12-13 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Good luck! I will totally read that.

And yay, Bylines! lol

[identity profile] lanyon.livejournal.com 2013-12-13 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I most certainly want to read this story. \o/