author update

Anyone following me for any bit of time probably knows that I’m an aspiring writer hoping to go traditional someday. I used to have self-published work, but stopped them from being available as much as I could to hopefully move on from my mediocre work and look towards the future with my Middle Grade Fantasy stuff.

I’ve been querying agents almost every day for the last couple of weeks, minus the anime con I recently went to. Hoping some will eventually like my work and hopefully represent me (doesn’t every aspiring writer want that?).

In the mean time, feel free to check out my work on my Wattpad. It’s free to read and is the work I hope to build an audience for while I’m seeking traditional publishing.

The Planes Walkers is a coming-of-age middle grade fantasy story about a boy named Jet Cafl.

Description:

Jet Cafl is falling. He knows he will soon hit the icy waters that surround the castle of Calbar. Above him, the Emperor’s tower. It was once a place he dreamed of living, instead of his and his older brother’s run-down shack. But Elements have taken everything from him. They took his hopes, his dreams, and now his brother. The Elementalist behind it: the Emperor Wrathel himself. As the Spirit Element grants Jet its abilities, he can only think about stopping the Emperor.

Wattpad cover done by @LaurenDMSmith

The 14th Zodiac is a middle grade fantasy that takes place in the real world but with a school for those gifted powers from the western astrology Zodiacs. Still a work in progress.

Description:

Vincent thought he was a normal middle school student until a massive goat creature, called an Aspected, crashes through the window of his classroom. His mysterious teacher named Evans saves him and his class from the Aspected, and nobody is any the wiser. Evans tells Vincent that he is being hunted by Aspected because he is a Signed, a person granted powers based on the Zodiac they were born under in Western Astrology. Vincent decides to go with Evans to the school for Signed, Apsis Academy, and discovers that he is a unique Signed, born under a sign that is unknown to everyone: the 14th Zodiac.
Wattpad cover by @Howling_Silver

As always, thank you everyone who has followed me so far, and I appreciate any who decide to read my work and share it.

“And when he swore to bring back his love by the stories he’d create, nightmares shifted endlessly in the darkness of the lake.” – The Poet and the Muse by Poets of the Fall

So I haven’t written a piece in a while, so I figured I’d take the time to update everyone on how my writing is going.

Last I wrote a blog, I was doing NaNoWriMo 2016. Well, I won for the second year in a row, which just means I met the 50,000 word count within a month. It pumped out a lot of my current story. Congrats to anyone else who won National Novel Writing Month too!

Since, I haven’t written too much. Shortly after NaNo, the holidays came in a storm. It kept me pretty busy. Traveled to see some family in another state. I did take my laptop but never really got a lot of free time to sit down and write what I wanted. It was nice to spend time with family I don’t really get to see much.

Once I got back, I was planning on writing while I still had a few days before I had to go back to work. But alas, the Steam Winter Sale was going on. If anyone knows me well enough, they know I’m also a gamer. I picked up several new games and played Stardew Valley for several hours on those last few vacation days. Praise to Gaben.

So here I am almost half way through January, and the ending still needs to be written to my current manuscript. On the plus side, I’ve been taking creative writing classes and several critiques have said that the beginning of the story is brilliant. That’s always a nice feeling.

Hopefully I’ll finish the ending soon and get into the grind that is called editing. I have an outline of several scenes that need to be revised and edited already. Don’t know how long the editing and revision stage will take, because I hope not too long before I can start looking for an agent.

I’ll probably give another update when I reach the editing stage, but until then, thanks for reading. I should get back to writing now.

Brandan Chapman

Middle Grade Fantasy Author

Still Seeking Agent, but Wattpad is a Thing

Author Update