Originally published at The Whitechapel Project (for MP3s and polls, click this link). You can comment here or there.

First, a quick Whitechapel update. Episode 1 is written, and I have some final revisions in mind before I record it. I still have to work a little on my reading speed (which is why I gave myself more time — I’m anticipating quite a number of takes the first time through), but overall things are looking good for the August 5th release.

I did want to take a moment to point out that the Whitechapel Project site is, in fact, more than just the Whitechapel novella (although I anticipate it will likely be the majority of the site’s focus — hence the name). I had been considering a blog for my fiction for quite some time, but it wasn’t until Whitechapel that I had a project big enough to warrant the initial start-up work¹. But I always expected that other fiction would cluster around this site — in fact, if you check out the “About the Project” page, I’ve already got a couple of other projects in mind.

What I didn’t expect is that I would start getting more ideas right away.

While my family and I were our running errands this morning, we went into a bookstore (not actually to buy books, interestingly enough). I remarked that it seemed like every day there was another “bad girl gets involved with the supernatural” series on the shelves, and I joked about how White Wolf was doing that long before it was cool². This led to us talking about the tropes of the emerging genre, and me saying that I could probably write something like that easily enough. We laughed about it and continued on our errands.

For the last couple of hours, it’s been poking at the back of my brain, and now I have some ideas for Katrina Night, Vampire Hunter. I’m getting ready to put some stuff down into a Google Doc after I finish this post, so it’s entirely possible that some Katrina Night stuff might show up here on the blog, along with other projects like the adventures of Agent Patriot and Mosaic.

For ease, I’m going to break each series up into its own category, and I’ll try to tag accordingly, so you can choose what you want to follow as well as search more easily for it on the site. If, for example, you really only give a shit about Whitechapel, you can just follow the “Whitechapel” category (for those reading on my LiveJournal, you can also follow the “Whitechapel” tag). I’ll tag rambling posts about my writing process like this one under “Author’s Notes,” news about the site and the project as a whole under “Site News,” and so on. I don’t expect everyone will like everything on here, but I want to make it as easy as possible for many people to follow what they do like.

By the way, everything I put up here is free in cost, but I’m always appreciative of financial donations. I’m not asking for people to drop a massive amount of money on me (though I certainly won’t turn it down!), but I do want people to have the opportunity to buy me a beer after hearing a good story, or at least the Web 2.0 equivalent. If you’d like to donate, feel free to check out the “Buy Me A Beer” link at the top of every page.

Footnote 1. To be fair, David Bounds is responsible for the majority of the technical heavy-lifting. He was able to get my WordPress installation up and running in no time, and even helped the site through a few initial hiccups during testing.

Footnote 2. Sonya Blue, among other titles.