I'm going to be participating in an writing activity, instigated by writer Tim Hallinan, http://www.timothyhallinan.com, called the Dickens Challenge. A number of writers will be posting one chapter a week of a project a la Dickens and his serial novels. My work will be called "The Untitled Leap." Please pardon the rust.
Here is a list of the other writers involved in this Challenge, and where you can find their work:
John Dishon, newly married
and newly out of college, is a beginning novelist with special
interests in Asian culture and literature, who sees the Challenge as a
way of getting one of his ideas for a novel out of his head and into
written form. His book will begin Monday, December 17. It’s called Country Snow and it can be found at www.johndishon.com Nadja (NL Gassert) is working on the second book in
her gay romantic suspense series set on lush, tropical Guam: When a
vengeful STALKER seeks to punish Mason Ward for the sins of his
past—and present—the security specialist needs to fight to save himself
and those closest to him. Nadja will begin to post on Monday, December 17 and you can read her at http://write-experience Timothy Hallinan is a novelist who lives in Los Angeles and Bangkok, Thailand. The Fourth Watcher, which is the next novel in his Bangkok series, will be published in June 2008 by William Morrow. (The first, A Nail Through the Heart, is out now.) His Challenge book, Counterclockwise, will start Monday, December 17 at http://www.timothyhallinan.com/blog/ Steve Wylder is an Amtrak ticket agent and
freelance writer living in Elkhart, Indiana and Bloomington, Illinois.
His most recent published work is “Time Passages: Reflections on the
Last Train Home,” in Remember the Rock Magazine. His contribution to the Dickens Challenge is tentatively titled “Things Done and Left Undone” and will begin Monday, December 17 at : http://ontheslowtrain.blogspot Lisa Kenney is a telecommunications industry
account executive and beginning novelist who lives in Denver. She’s
tackling the Challenge with a Dickensian themed story with the working
title Foundling Wheel and will begin posting excerpts Monday at Eudaemonia. Lisa, bless her brave soul, will begin to post on Monday, December 17.\ Usman is a businessman and writer who lives in
Pakistan and has recently completed a book, which is now in revision.
His work for the Challenge will be a mystery/thriller for which he’s
still gathering ideas. (Welcome to the club.) It’s not titled yet but
when he publishes, beginning around January 1, 2008, it’ll be at http://reality967.livejournal
