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John Wilkes Booth, Vampire Lord.

I am so writing this.

Probably with Excalibur, cuz that’s awesome.

—Myca

I’ve been putting together a rough plot outline, according to the criteria TNH posted:

The book has to be a graphic novel which is the first novel published by the author, a person of color who is an active and well-liked member of SFWA. It must be initially published in Canada, in French, as a paperback original, with simultaneous British and North American English-language editions following about ten minutes after, and a Japanese translation already in the works. It must satisfy the genre expectations of hard SF, mythopoeic fantasy, horror, alternate history, and romance, have positive gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgendered characters, and include examinations of gender, gender identity, racial identity, class, and libertarianism, while not being unsuitable for younger readers. Also, it has to have poetry in it. And a vampire.

It’s called Abraham Lincoln, Undead Fighter, and it concerns an alternate history in which the south won the Civil War thanks to an alien symbiote infecting the wealthy landowners and Confederate leadership, gifting them with both inhuman strength and a lust for human blood! Bolstering their abilities by feeding on the blood of their thousands of slaves, they steamroll the north, forcing the closeted gay president Abraham Lincoln to flee to Quebec along with Alain, a charismatic young racially mixed infantryman with a dark secret . Through their travels and battles against the roving bands of vampires sent to assassinate the true president, Lincoln finds himself falling in love with Alain, never suspecting the truth, that Alain is really Elaine, a young woman who fled the vampiric invasion disguised as a man!

Okay, so thus far we’ve got vampires, positive gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgendered characters, examinations of gender, gender identity, racial identity, and class, horror, alternate history, romance, and possibly hard SF depending on how we write about the parasites. We could easily do it as a graphic novel and it would be the first novel published by me, but I’m not a person of color or an active and well-liked member of SFWA, so I’ll need to ghost for someone who is. I figure if the bulk of the action takes place in Canada and the author I’m ghosting for is Canadian, we’ll have no problem getting it initially published as a paperback graphic novel in Canada, in French, and the simultaneous British and North American English-language editions are just a matter of logistics at that point. Maybe we should do it anime-style to ease the Japanese translation.

I’m still working on mythopoeic fantasy, libertarianism, the young adult stuff, and the poetry.

—Myca, hard at work.

This kind of reads like a late-night dare. “They’re a rock band! And she’s an alien princess! Who hates vikings! Plus, robots.”

Actually, it reminds me of the book with everything.

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(UPDATE: It makes a lot more sense when the whole thing loads. I was only getting like 1/4 of each, which upped the randomness quotient by like 10x.)

Found today on Alas, a blog:Sugarshock is Joss Whedon’s free on-line comic. If you haven’t read it yet you should: part 1, part 2, and part 3.I’m not one to argue with Alas.
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Probably something to do with their history of enstoving the caribou.

But maybe you’re a viking

By Odin, how could you make such an accusation?

But maybe you’re a viking or a squirrel, and therefore it refused to load? Just a thought.

i know we’ve done some bad things, but so has everybody else. and we’re not nearly as bad as those stinking saxons.

other than that, i too am a joss whedon fan, so i can cut him some slack i guess - maybe i just didn’t get the joke. maybe i’ll send him an email asking what’s the big idea.

There’s actually also a nice little recent bit on the artist’s blog about drawing Sugarshock, now that it’s over.