Surviving in Horror title change to The Midnight Files

book plug: Painter of the Dead by Catherine Butzen! by doctorlit on 2020-10-06 02:58:48 UTC Plug Reply

So there's a book coming out tomorrow that I therefore haven't read yet, but I'm plugging it anyway?

(Link mentions suicide, but not really because he gets better.) Painter of the Dead is a paranormal romance mystery set in a history museum, with Egyptology and mummies and curses! And . . . canopic jars? Maybe? (I think a link is going to pop up under the description once it becomes available. If not, I'll find a link and edit it in tomorrow.)

Oh, and the author has requested that, if we ever find typos in this universe, they become mini-clay golems. Because the main reason I'm plugging her work is that she's a former Boarder. : )

—doctorlit, supporting our fellows!

Yay! by Neshomeh on 2020-10-07 02:48:09 UTC Reply

I heard this would be coming down the pipeline at some point. I'm pleased it's here. ^_^

IIRC, Deborah Natelson (another author on that list) is also a former PPCer, right?

Actually, reading the other book summaries, there's something a tad PPCish about the whole line-up. And the company's emphasis on copy-editing and proofreading... and the nod to the Inklings... I wonder...

Nah, couldn't be. It couldn't be a publishing house entirely run by the PPC. Could it? O.o

~Neshomeh

I mean, I would love that to be true . . . by doctorlit on 2020-10-07 03:30:29 UTC Reply

But Butzen and Natelson are the only ones I know of.

(On that site, that is. ~~We know~~ Okay, I was going to just throw a few others out, but at this point, might as well list them all. And I'm not closing that parenthesis, either! Bear in mind I'm only sharing their PPC screen name if they published under it, or if they came to plug it here and revealed their real life name as a result. So:

Kippur plugged The Tropes of Fantasy Fiction here on the Board years back.

Under her screenname, Makari published—holy cow, I didn't know the whole trilogy was out already! Need to get the other two . . . (Don't know who the co-writer is, honestly.)

Kitty Eden contributed multiple short Doctor Who fics to the anthology 101 Claras to See, which was a limited-run charity event and may not be available any more . . .

Lee Comyn is one of ours, and contributed the short story "Matching Vectors" to the M/M sports anthology Make a Play.

Jake Nelson is also a Boarder, and contributed writing for part of the quickstart guide for the tabletop RPG Relics: a Game of Angels, as well as the entirety of the Las Vegas expansion. Both are available here.

Just a month or two ago, FourMoonsWathcing published her own RPG, Swan Song.

Aaand not actually a Boarder, but the author of one of the older OFUs published The Serpent and the Peacock.

So yeah! The PPC is making a mark on the published world, no denying it! Even if the vast majority of these were published after the Boarder left . . .

—doctorlit stayed up to late assembling these links

Thinklings Authors by Agent L Twain on 2021-07-28 13:54:36 UTC Reply

Deborah J. Natelson here. :) Although not all Thinklings authors are PPCers (only Catherine Butzen and I are), both Katherine Vick and Remy Apepp (book forthcoming) are well-known fanfiction authors -- I know them especially from Harry Potter and Death Note -- and Sarah Awa has written some for Bleach. So even though they weren't in the PPC, they were, shall we say, upholding writing values in the fanfiction world.

I mentioned this elsewhere, but I've actually now begun writing a PPCish story on Amazon's new web novel platform. Short summary is that genres are infesting the world and twisting little pockets of influence to fit their tropes. Agents enter the world to defeat the "Heart" of the scenario, to release the victims who've been pulled into it. Clear influence there. :) The first Assignment + report is free: https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-in-Horror/dp/B0933KWH9J/

One of my protagonists in an older novel is named after a certain thorn tree. Just, you know. Because I could.

Thinking about it, I should dedicate the series, "Surviving in Horror," to the PPC. It's been a massive influence on my life and writing.

In the meantime -- well, I already own all of Butzen's book, so I'm going to go check out some of the other things on this list!

Surviving in Horror title change to The Midnight Files by Agent L Twain on 2022-01-05 13:48:34 UTC Writing Reply

I'm just posting to say that the title of Surviving In Horror was changed to The Midnight Files, because the original title was never actually meant to be permanent (it was the title of the first assignment, which was a, sigh, runner-up in the Writers of the Future competition. I'm two for two stories as a runner up, gah. But anyway) and people were getting confused, because the story is fantasy adventure, not horror. So now you know. :) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0933KWH9J

Also, it's now over 60k words (in my word doc; maybe 50k published?) I think the first arc will finish around 75k, in May 2022. Because I'm a novel-length writer at heart, even for an episodic format, apparently. And still amusing myself being all tropey.

A couple more for you by Huinesoron on 2020-10-07 07:52:32 UTC Edited Reply

Back in 2017, Scapegrace gave us all a Christmas present by announcing her publication of Anomalies: Short Stories. I'm not sure it remains available.

Talia Lavin, formerly of this parish, has a book coming out ~~this month~~ in eight days: Culture Warlords, an exposé of white supremacy on the Internet. Quite how she found time between posing with swords on Twitter I'm not sure (not an uncommon pasttime for PPCers).

For reference, Shakespeare wrote "approximately 39" plays; if we count the six books Natelson has filed under Older Books, the PPC is up to 24. So GeniusGamer, it's only a matter of time!

hS
It’s only a matter of time by GeniusGamer on 2020-10-07 04:14:26 UTC Reply

Soon, there will be more books sold authored by us than William Shakespeare. We will have our own Wikipedia page, and lots of notability. Every person in the world will recognize the Protectors of the Plot Continuum. We will be the Illuminati of literature.

Continues to ramble about the amount of control over the world the PPC will exert

And then, we'll take over the Tri-State Area! (nm) by Damian Thorne on 2020-10-25 13:46:19 UTC Reply

Yes, I am a clear stalker at this point, but it's very important to me to collect all these, so... (nm) by doctorlit on 2020-10-07 03:35:24 UTC Reply