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Geek Confessional: Time to Get Numb Again

  1. Geek Confessional: I’ve got (a lot of) game
  2. Geek Confessional: I’ve written for Deep Space Nine, Lois & Clark, and The X-Files (sort of)
  3. Geek Confessional Update: I have the scripts!
  4. Geek Confessional: I once gave a wedding toast in Klingon
  5. Geek Confessional: The Hair
  6. Geek Confessional: I Have a Dream, Disney!
  7. Geek Confessional: I did the fanfic thing
  8. Geek Confessional: I’m a Gilmore Guy
  9. Geek Confessional: Fus Roh Uh-Oh
  10. Geek Confessional: I was brainwashed by Jar Jar Binks
  11. Geek Confessional: I’m a professional wrestling fan
  12. Geek Confessional: I wrote storylines for two wrestling companies (sort of)
  13. Geek Confessional: My First Screenplay
  14. Geek Confessional: My Second Screenplay
  15. Geek Confessional: My Third (and final) Screenplay
  16. Geek Confessional: I’m a Found Footage Junkie
  17. Geek Confessional: I’ve Never Played Dungeons and Dragons
  18. Geek Confessional: I didn’t read C.S. Lewis until I was an adult
  19. Geek Confessional: I’ve only been to one comic book convention
  20. Geek Confessional: I tried writing for dinner theatre
  21. Geek Confessional: My first “book” was a poorly drawn comic series
  22. Geek Confessional: My “second book” was a horrible YA adventure
  23. Geek Confessional: My High School Manuscripts
  24. Geek Confessional: My First Christian Fiction
  25. Geek Confessional: The Return of the Christian Fiction
  26. Geek Confessional: When Dreams Die Hard
  27. Geek Confessional: When the Time Comes to Stop
  28. Geek Confessional: When It All Goes Off the Rails
  29. Geek Confessional: A Super Conference
  30. Geek Confessional: When One Becomes “Three”
  31. Geek Confessional: Time to Get Numb Again
  32. Geek Confessional: An Honor to be Nominated
  33. Geek Confessional: The Ironic Origins of The Hive
  34. Geek Confessional: An Authorial Bucket List

So in some ways, I’ve been cheating.

Well, not really. I’ve actually faced a bit of dilemma when it comes to sharing these stories about how I went from unpublished wannabe to published impostor author. The dilemma is this: the order my books were published is not the order in which they were written. If you’ve been reading all of these entries, you’ve seen that for yourself. I actually wrote the story of Numb before I had even dreamed up Failstate and his compatriots. I’ve even told how my failure to pitch Numb led to the creation of Failstate and his stories.

But that just begs the question: how did I come up with Numb in the first place?

Well, I’ve actually told that story before. If you’re curious, click on over to here and see how it all came about. I’ll also add it into the series as the next entry.

So how did it wind up getting published? Well, around the same time that Jeff Gerke was asking me if I had any non-superhero ideas. And so I told him that I had this one book about an assassin that couldn’t feel emotions or pain. And the next thing I knew, I had a a contract to publish Numb.

That’s it. That’s all there was to it. Eventually, we had a cover to go with it.

So what happened next? How did The Hive come along? Well, that all came about because of a bit of delicious irony. But that’s next time in the Confessional.

One Comment:

  1. tkmorgan21
    March 24, 2017 at 10:53 pm

    What a wild ride! Nothing is ever as simple as it seems to those outside the action. Thanks for sharing your journey. I get to be at the Dayton Book Expo on April 29th, so I’m taking it one step at a time. LUV YA BUNCHES IN JESUS WITH HUGS!
    Tonja Condray Klein at http://www.eirinth.com.

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