Hey, so, sooner or later, I’m going to edit this site’s SQL code to make this message show up on every password-protected post, but I just wanted to remind interested parties that anyone can actually read these. All you have to do is become a fan of SKSG on Facebook. The passwords are right there on the page, in the Info section. Hooray!
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This actually comes to me via my freshman roommate from college. It’s pretty fascinating if you ask me, and it confirms a lot of what I’d already been thinking.
Welcome to the official School Kids SG store!
The first three books in the series are now available in both print and electronic format.
Book One: The Gauntlet
Preview | Buy print ($8.99) | Buy download ($2.00)
Mark Daley is an ex-vigilante fed up with his life. His days as a sophomore at Woodvale High are spent helping his former commander, Lyle Banister, think up new ways to feed his ego. But all that changes when Mark meets the SG Crew, a group of five rambunctious juniors who teach him how to escape his past.
There’s just one problem: Lyle doesn’t want to let Mark go, and he’ll do whatever it takes to hold his team together. Even if it means starting a schoolwide riot.
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Book Two: Blood and Brotherhood
Preview | Buy print from Amazon or Lulu ($12.99) | Buy download ($2.00)
Buried fears and dark personal truths haunt the SG Crew as they collide with the most powerful force in the New York underworld. Equal parts gang and renegade church, the Incisors have killed or converted all who stood in their way, and now they have their sights set on the Prattcorn Valley.
Only ex-vigilante Mark Daley can guide his friends through this crisis, but the chaos may be inside him, too…and there’s no telling what will happen when that energy breaks free.
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Book Three: The Arc of Time
Preview | Buy print ($12.99) | Buy download ($2.00)
The teen angst hits the fan as Mark Daley slides to the brink of a nervous breakdown, pushed along by the troubled Tre Carmack. Weighed down by his vigilante past and feeling responsible for the awkwardness of his friends, Mark struggles to escape the idea that he may be the cause of all his own problems.
But with a Third Great Hallway War brewing in the wings, Mark can’t run from his troubles forever. The time has come to decide who he wants to believe–but the wrong choice could doom Woodvale High and fracture the SG Crew forever.
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Wow, check out these photos of the destruction. This is Brooklyn’s second tornado in three years, and New York City’s third overall (there was another one in the Bronx, I understand). Global warming, anyone?
I live at a triangle of three streets; there used to be a very nice tree on the far side where, in the spring, you could plainly see baby birds chirping in their nest within a big hollow. That tree is now leaning against the building across the street. It’s such a shame.
TV Guide’s fall premiere calendar! With how much I have to do on any given night, I’ll probably always be a little bit behind, but there are a bunch of things I’m excited to see return…happy Chuck managed to stay alive, for example.
So yeah, I guess I’m writing book five now. And working on getting book one back up for sale. And working on editing together the disparate pieces of book four. And doing a bunch of other things that aren’t even related to SKSG. I’ll be surprised if one of these days I don’t just collapse with a poof and turn into a pile of sand. But it’ll be happy sand.
Today, I want to point you in the direction of one of my creative inspirations, David Willis. Actually, a post about how much I’m (over?)working myself is a pretty apt place to bring him up again–this is a man who is simultaneously writing Shortpacked!, daily toy news, something related to Transformers, and now Dumbing of Age, a reimagining of his previous two comic series, It’s Walky! and Roomies!. He’s my hero. I’m surprisingly excited about DoA (ha!) and I really want it to take off, so please do me (and yourself) a favor and go check it out.
It’s funny…I had started to feel like I was creatively stagnating there for a while, but now that I’m working on book five, I’m realizing how long it’s been since I’ve drafted something new (as opposed to editing something that already existed). I think the absence of that might have been the culprit. Creative types, take note–always keep making new things! How else will you surprise yourself?
As you may have seen on the SKSG Canon Calendar (now in hi-res, finally!), September 7th is “Woodvale Day,” a holiday observed only in…Woodvale! Most people celebrate it as the anniversary of the town’s founding, when the Borough of Woodvale was carved out of the then-much-larger Township of Columbia. I like to think Woodvale is just over 100 years old, having been incorporated as a borough during the New Jersey “Boroughitis” phase of the late 19th century. That article is actually pretty interesting reading.
How would you celebrate Woodvale Day? Me, I put up that new calendar viewer!
Saw this while walking through Queens earlier. Thought that Hurricane Earl had finally arrived.
Still writing a lot. Book one should be back up for sale before too much longer. I randomly wrote a chapter for book five (!) today–I felt it coming and figured I should just go with it. You’ll see it in…a couple of years, I guess. Um.
