- "An occultist an artist & a hedonist walk into a bar..." -

Okay not really. Not exactly. But "an occultist finds an artist through the newspaper, and meets both him and his partner, a hedonist, in the art gallery" doesn't sound nearly as good, now does it?

And that's what this whole thing is about, right? Making my as of yet unfinished, and therefore unpublished work sound good. Making it catch your eye, before I even finish writing the blasted thing. Of course to do that, I do need to actually talk about the novel, don't I?

I suppose we ought to begin with the plot. Though that might give too much away. The setting? 1890s Providence, Rhode Island, with a few small sidebars toward Arkham. That is to say, the setting is Lovecraft Country.

A most haunted and sinister version of New England. 'Lovecraft Country' has become the widest used title for this fictionalized region. [In a 1930 letter to Robert E. Howard, Lovecraft attempted to explain his fascination with New England as a setting for weird fiction: "It is the night-black Massachusetts legendary which packs the really macabre 'kick'. Here is material for a really profound study in group neuroticism; for certainly, none can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination."](Wikipedia) This is the New England we are working within. One of the macabre, of the Weird, and one full of cults.

What else to use to draw in the readers.... Ah yes, our characters. As with all romances, we have our lead, one Daniel Davies, in this case, and a love interest. Well, two love interests here. This is, first and formost, a romance. It's erotica, there's just also gooey corpses and cults.

Not to mention the rest of them. The ghosts, the cults, the Things From Beyond. All of them will appear in due time, with bios and interviews forthcoming as appropriate. They can't wait to meet you all.

Current Wordcount

As of right now the wordcount in my first draft is: 13.321 words.