Slight Deviation

So I'm writing, but not Dark Disciple. I'm revisiting a picture-book manuscript and will be sending that out to publishers who accept unsolicited material. I'm excited to do this as it's a short-term project that should get me re-engaged in Dark Disciple work.

And if it results in publishing something that wouldn't suck either.

The picture book is a retelling of an old Russian fairy tale about a thumbsized man who is essentially a djinni in a bottle. In my retelling he's freed from a sketchy imprisonment by a boy named Josef, and his skeptical little sister Ekaterine.

The more I think about the thumbsized man's imprisonment, the more I realize it's heavily inspired by the Looney Tunes with the singing frog in the time capsule.

Hmmm... might have to work on that. Or not.

Anyway it's a tight and captivating little story that I came up with about 6 years ago while rocking my son Joe to sleep. I'm very excited to shop it around and see what happens. I have two other Josef and Ekaterine stories. One has Ekaterine squaring off against the antagonist from Gogol's The Nose. Yes - it's the Nose himself! And in the other Josef and Ekaterine team up with a Taltos and his two brothers to rescue the Spring Fairy from Chudo Yudo the 9 headed dragon.

Good stuff...

I'll be back to Dark Disciple before Thanksgiving. Promise.