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Gothic Novel Prompts

Everyone got a written prompt and a pictorial prompt (see the charts below).

We rolled a 6-sided die twice, counting first across, then down on the chart of Kathleen Jenning’s fairy tale art chart. Then we rolled a 20-sided dice for a sampling from Kathleen Jennings’ “Girls Running from Houses” prompts.

Use them together to make something. It doesn’t REALLY have to be a novel! >.>

Christa Carmen
6-sided die roll X2, 3 across, 6 down: Locked Book
20-side die roll: 4

“The house has been infested by libraries and moths. The girl, like the false bride, dances alone.”

Zig Zag Claybourne/Clarence Young

6-sided die roll X2, 3 across, 2 down:
20-side die roll: 6

“She discovers that the house collects trapdoors. But in addition, there is a legend of a brooding mannequin, who digs holes in the lawn and who slams doors.”


Dr. Kathleen Jennings

6-sided die roll X2, 5 across, 3 down:
20-side die roll: 8

“It’s all happening inevitably, just as she dreamed. One girl runs from the house; another arrives on a Tuesday, seeking peace and quiet.”

Jessica P. Wick
6-sided die roll X2, 4 across, 6 down:
20-side die roll: 15

“The girl was long ago contrary, and she will become sarcastic. She is goose-eyed; she is what the house dreaded.”


Mike Allen

6-sided die roll X2, 2 across, 3 down:
20-side die roll: 2

“In a thunderstorm, the girl is escaping the house. But the house longs.”


Kenesha Williams

6-sided die roll X2, 6 across, 2 down:
20-side die roll: 20

“The girl was recently restless, and she will become peculiarly gifted. An ancient tree curses fate in the garden.”

Juliette Wade
6-sided die roll X2, 2 across, 4 down:
20-side die roll: 5

“The house is beloved of death, and the housekeeper is lark-hearted, and the girl is star-tongued.”


Rob Cameron/Cameron Roberson

6sided die roll X2, 5 across, 1 (stays):
20
-side die roll: 14

“When she flees the house, she will wear the mark of the house. The girl, unlike the house, is hound-swift.”

Dr. Lisa L. Hannett
6-sided die roll X2, 4 across, 2 down:
20-side die roll: 16

The house labours to discover whether the girl is amenable. The girl was recently morbid, yet she will become stubborn. The feared translucent lady, who leaves ice on the counterpane, turns out to be the groundskeeper.

For You, The Chat
6-sided die roll X2, 5 across, 4 down:
20-side die roll: 18

“In the sickroom, the girl sings to herself. Even so, a beetle undulates in flashes of lightning. When the girl arrives, the house is beset by spiderwebs. Just before she leaves, it will be afflicted with mirrors.”

KATHLEEN JENNING’S ART CHART: FOUND ON REDBUBBLE!

Kathleen Jennings’ fairy tale art chart!
“Girls Running from Houses,” developed by Kathleen Jennings

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Welcome, New Friends

I just ended my newsletter experiment on Substack, so I’m back to my website being the main source for all things C. S. E. Cooney-esque.

Of course, whenever Carlos and I collaborate, we post the news on hernandooney.com, so if you’re a follower/fan of Negocios Infernales, that’s the place to be… though I do like to re-blog it here, and vice versa. Same with conventions we’ll be at, appearances, etc, etc.

If for some reason you have trouble following WordPress blogs, but you want to get all our news right in your inbox, as you would with other newsletter services, I found a how-to here.

Oh.

By the way…

HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS!!!

I have so much to tell you!

Carlos and I have been sending out updates to our Kickstarter backers, along with Google polls in order to arrange the Roll20 games of Negocios Infernales and the Infernal Salons that we promised as rewards. We also sent our edits for our little collection Infernal Bargains to our editor, Alana J Abbott, at Outland Entertainment.

All that’s left is to sign the contract, heh heh heh… >.>

This is the collection of all the works Carlos and I wrote and/or published based on card draws from Negocios Infernales’s DECK OF DESTINY (la Baraja del Destino). It was a stretch goal that we sort of BLEW RIGHT THROUGH. So I’m excited to have a new COLLECTION out soon! AND WITH MY DOCTOR HUSBANDPANTS NO LESS!

Right now, I’m working on my sequel to Saint Death’s Herald. It’s due at the end of February. I have a couple exciting books I’ll be blurbing, as well. AND I get to write three short stories for upcoming anthologies that I’m so excited about. Maybe I’ll do a whole other blog on that!

I’ll also be writing more about the cons we’ll be attending this year. We’ll be attending SFF book cons as well as game cons, so we’ll be out and about a lot this year. Carlos and I will both be Guests of Honor as HELIOsphere this year–along with Clarkesworld’s NEIL CLARKE. That’s in New Jersey.

Our first con of the year, though, will be PLANET (the Kansas City Comic Con), the local con for our game publishers, Outland Entertainment. We were so busy traveling for the holidays, getting sick from traveling, and recovering from travel (and from last semester/end of last year) that we skipped Boskone this year for our mental health. It was a great decision, but we also missed everybody.

This Saturday, I’m scooting over to Boston for a quick day trip for one reason only:

TO WATCH A HALLMARK MOVIE AT A FRIEND’S HOUSE.

But not just ANY Hallmark Movie, friends.

This Hallmark movie is the FILM DEBUT of my friend, the brilliant playwright (and now SCREENWRITER!) Reina Hardy! It’s part of Hallmark’s February “Loveuary”–all Jane Austen movies, all the time. Reina’s is called PAGING MR. DARCY, and it looks adorable.

But mostly, mostly, for the whole next month, till LEAPDAY, I’ll be finishing my novel, Saint Death’s Herald. (Or as my mom, J-9, Carlos, and I have all taken to calling it, “HAROLD!” in a bad New York accent.)

I’ve been using the new cover as my screensaver on my phone, and the wallpaper on my laptop, but it’s not public yet so I can’t show you how PRETTY IT IS! But it is. SO PRETTY. So cheerful. I look at it whenever I want to re-inspire myself.

It’s, like, a book cover. Of a finished book. So I have to finish!!!

More soon! About the short stories in these awesome upcoming anthologies, and the D&D event we just played in public at the Klein Auditorium, and playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with Carlos–my first video game as an adult!!!! I mean…

Life is very full. And, locally, very sweet indeed.

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