The Next Best Thing Blog Challenge

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From erastes

1) Answer the 10 questions below.

2) Spread the fun and tag 5 more awesome people to participate.

1. What is the title of your book / WIP?

Barbarossa's Bitch

2. Where did the idea of the book come from?

Adam Lambert at Sydney Mardi Gras and a viewing of Road Warrior.

3. What genre would your book fall under?

Gay post-apocalyptic fiction

4. Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?

Kane (aka Dylan Taggart) is Aaron Stanford in my head. The slightly scruffy Birkhoff from "Nikita" instead of the fresh-faced psychopath from X-Men.
Barbarossa is Adam Lambert, blue eyes, black hair and all.
Fr. Douglas White, (OFM) would be Tommy Flanagan
Bokassa, the war-leader, looks a lot like Wilt Chamberlain.
Ryder, our baby faced psycho is Matthias, a model
Redmond looks frighteningly like Danny Kaye
That's about all I've managed to mentally cast.

5. What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?

Post-apocalyptic biker gang faces the end of their usefulness and must adapt

6. Is your book published or represented?

It's contracted and will be out in January from Storm Moon Press.


7. How long did it take you to write it?

been poking at it for a couple years, just settled in for the last 15K push.


8. What other books in your genre would you compare it to?

Not books so much as a Sons of Anarchy meets Road Warrior and do the Huckleberry Finn/Slipstream episodic thing.


9. Which authors inspired you to write this book?

Again, this is more movie based. The non-linear structure can be blamed on Boondock Saints. The pack is borrowed from Road Warrior and the Settlements from Slipstream. And of course, the Stand.

10. Tell us anything else that might pique our interest in your book.

Uzi-toting hippies. Christopagans. Lesbian Amazons.
And post-apocalyptic ice cream!

Comments

[m-barnette.livejournal.com]

Slipstream... I thought I was the only one who ever saw that movie. I recently got it on DVD along with 99 other movies in a set at Walmart for $18.

I seriously need to finish this book. I have SO MANY ideas, including a new post-apocalyptic setting or two.

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I am a Mark Hamill fan. This means I have seen more bad movies than most people care to count.

Slipstream is a futuristic Huckleberry Finn, done with a riover of air instead of water.

[m-barnette.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, yeah I can see the Huckleberry Finn comparison.

I think I liked Slipstream more than that 'classic' book though.