FROM THE BLOG DIARY OF EMILY HUNTER

Entry #2: July 17, 2013

So this week, the assignment is to be a little more forthcoming.

Yeah, assignment.  This blog isn’t entirely my idea.  And while I am getting credit for listening to my therapist and actually starting it (not something she was entirely sure I would do), the goal is to not hold back.  So I guess I should re-introduce myself.

My name is Emily Hunter.  I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia.  Specifically, my files say "auditory and visual hallucinations and nihilistic delusions."  Currently I am in partial remission.  (How’s that for forthcoming?)

In simpler terms, I am fucked up.

Now notice that I’m not saying the government is out to get me.  I am not currently wearing a tin-foil hat.  Schizophrenia is not something that is very fairly represented in popular media.  We aren’t all rocking in corners, babbling incoherently, and screaming at shadows.  (I have lived with those people though, and some of the stories they tell are better than anything you’ll ever see on TV.)  I can hold a conversation, I can hold a job.  I keep track of my own medication (Clonazepam twice a day for anxiety, clozaril, one in the morning, four at night, and one shot of haloperidol and a blood draw every two weeks.  The chloropromazine gave me a fever when I was 21 and put me in the hospital for a week and a half.)

Here’s what they don’t tell you about anti-psychotic medication:  It’s good for your mind, but shit for your body.  It makes you feel drowsy, achy, constipated, and just generally miserable.

I seem to be breaking records for forthcoming.  Hi, I’m Emily and I can’t poop sometimes.  Nice to meet you.

So yeah, sometimes I see things.  Sometimes I get confused and think strange thoughts.  The meds help, as much as I hate to admit it (and especially since Dr. Harper is reading this.  Hello.) Although I do hate the way they make me feel, but I guess it’s better than some of the fucked up nightmares I used to have.  Sometimes while I was awake.

Sometimes I would see thi

Okay, per the rules I can’t delete anything, but I don’t have to keep typing either.  That’s enough forthcoming for today.

E

Update time! So I’ve got some more news and some more artwork for everyone!

It’s been brought to my attention recently that my book is pretty damn Metal and brutal.

I’m okay with this. :) To celebrate this, I’ve got some new artwork from Phil Rood and his favorite character in the book Gabriel DeAngelo. 

I present you with some unnecessary violence!

Good morning all.

Just a quick update on the progress of the book campaign.  We have 57 days left until November 14, and we’re sitting at 169 orders of the necessary 250 to publish.  We’re ahead of pace to make our goal, which is the good news.  The slightly more nerve-wracking news is we’re ahead by one book.  So it looks like this is going to be a tight race.  If you haven’t ordered yet, or are interested in ordering a second copy, or want to donate an eBook preorder to help the book get published, I can’t tell you how much I’d appreciate it.  But I’d try.

The book itself is in the middle of its seventh and hopefully final draft.  I’ve sent the manuscript out to a few fellow authors who have read it and said some very positive things about it.  I’m toying with an idea to make the story a little tighter, and hopefully once that’s in, I’ll be finished and the book will be ready for the long process of getting released via Inkshares.  And once it gets through that, it’ll be in all of your hands.

So thank you all for the support you’ve shown so far.  We’ve got a little less than two months to pull together and push to the end.  With the love you guys have shown so far, I don’t have any doubt it’s possible.  Only 81 to go.

Keep circulating the link.  http://www.inkshares.com/books/blue-water

If you haven’t yet, check out the first four chapters as well at bluewaternovel.com

Thank you all again.

Joseph

Hello everyone!

I have some exciting news to share today – I just got some possible covers for The Bones of the Past.So I’m looking for some feedback on which cover(s) you like best, and input on what you would change if anything!

Don’t be shy! Reply to this update, Email me at thebonesofthepast@gmail.com, Facebook me @Craig.Munro.Author, or  Tweet me @bonesofthepast !

Thank you all yet again - it’s all coming together!

 1

 2

 3

 4

 5

 6