PROJECTS

Upcoming Stories - Nick and Lysette

As literary biker Nick and his great vampiric love Lysette make their way back and forth across the United States and perhaps more of the world, I'm plotting more tales of their misadventures

For those of you following their route, in Thicker Than Water, they started in Central Utah, and moved on to Denver.

The next story, appearing in Thinner Than Mist, takes place between the two, in a little town called Grand Junction, Colorado. It's a story about leftover ghost impressions and how they relate to the monster of the week.

After Denver, comes the events of a story as yet unnamed, which recalls Nick's short-lived bare-knuckle boxing career.

And then, no less than a novel-length, which follows them through southern Colorado, Utah, Arizona, West Texas, and back to Utah and Colorado.

(A secret about Nick and Lysette is that their adventures will always take them back to Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Wyoming, no matter how far afield they may range.)

Then it's east, on to Hayes, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri and Jefferson City.

The latest story I've envisioned thus far takes our heroes to St. Louis, for an adventure penned with the Master of Werewolves himself, Curtis Hoffmeister.

Upcoming Stories - Other

Two other stories appear in Thinner Than Mist. One is titled "With Black Curtains." Listen to it with Eric Clapton as the background, preferably to the song containing that line. Another is called "Those Eyes," which is a story I've been beating my head against for over a decade. Free!

Longer Upcoming Projects

A novel entitled The Herpetology of Stars is in the works, hopefully for 2009 or 2010. Herpetology will explore the question: What if the science of demonology had it wrong all these years? What if, instead of summoning beings from the underworld, we were merely pissing off a more powerful alien race?

The Tao of Quantum Mathematics

This cycle will feature a new series character who who uses eastern mysticism to manipulate the particle physics of his little corner of the universe. Wizards and witches have nothing on this guy. I won't have time to mess with his adventures until about 2009, but his life is bouncing around the renaissance mind right now. I'm looking forward to see what falls out.

Last monkeyed with on March 23, 2008
Copyright © 1998-2007 Mark W. Worthen, all rights reserved

I've been a big fan of science fiction ever since I was a young boy. I cut my teeth on the commercial pulp stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Isaac Asimov, and later, the more thoughtful novels of Orson Scott Card and the heroic novels of Stephen King.

But I've also always enjoyed the more literary novels and stories of Ray Bradbury and perhaps my favorite writer of all time, Roger Zelazny.

As a result, my writing is a bit schizoid.

I have a deep love of the old romantic space-opera tales of worlds that never were and heroes that all boys wanted to be: Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Doc Savage, John Carter, and Lucky Starr.

But I also love a good character driven thought story, with a higher vocabulary and a more mysterious bent.

Whether you love adventure stories or character stories, I hope you'll find something to your liking in these pages of published or upcoming tales!