We are excited to announce our NaNoWriMo 2018 project:

The Deadman Files: Almost Feymous

While we wanted to keep working on Forge(t), November is going to be a chaotic month. This project made more sense for our schedules. Even though NaNo is still a few weeks away, we wanted to share an excerpt we wrote awhile ago. We’ve only played around with the idea of the book and written two chapters, but this is the beginning:

A long time ago, in a frog lab far, far away…

Actually it was about an hour ago. And the lab was only a room away.

It was going okay at first.

Sawyer licked a frog. Not the gross belly, but the back, where it had these fancy orange stripes that made it look really cool in its tank. “Okay,” he told his assistant. “This one tastes like pond slime. But it’s a little bitter too.”

“They all taste like pond slime,” she complained, but she wrote it down anyway. He knew what her handwriting would look like, all loopy and sophisticated, which was why he’d picked her as a partner. He usually had trouble reading his own notes.

He licked the next frog. “Pond slime,” he agreed. “And…bacon? If it’s a little burnt.”

“Bacon?” she asked. She licked the place on the frog, the same place he’d just licked and he ended up staring at her mouth and wondering how her tongue could be gross and…something else at the same time.

“That’s weird,” she commented.

Well at least she didn’t argue with him.

The Deadman Files is our up and coming series about Sawyer, a character from the War of the Wicca series. Its target audience is middle school students. We won’t be posting the entire story on our site, but we will be posting excerpts.

If you want to follow us on NaNo our username is Elesara