Coming Soon!

The book has been finished. And edited. And edited again. And changed the POV. Then, revised again. Queries have been sent to literary agents. Over and over and over again. They’ve been ignored. Overlooked. Rejected. Form rejections. The queries have been revised, rewritten, and resent. Pitches have been made to no avail. The book lies dormant. No agents have asked to read it. No publishers have asked either. Is it bad? No, I don’t think so. Is it not marketable? Possibly. Apparently, no one wants to try to sell a book based in the afterlife. Everyone wants to read about real life, fantasy worlds, other planets, other dimensions, and—as always—romance novels.

I believe in this story. It is a fantasy world, it is real life, it has romance, and it’s told in a different sort of way. So, I’ve had an epiphany. I should tell it in a different sort of way. Not in a written form. Not as an audiobook. Not a movie. But more like an audio drama with a podcast format. Let there be talk backs. Let there be emotion given to the story and characters. Let there be sound effects to enhance what words alone cannot express.

I’m theatrical. I’ve always been so. After finishing the writing the book and the revisions, my health took a nose-dive. I received an unforeseen diagnosis which has changed my life entirely. I’m unable to work as I have before. My body and brain do not function as they once did.

I’m disabled now. But I refuse to hide away and rot. I want to reach out in any way I can. I want to connect to people how I used to on stage. I was a performer. I portrayed characters from Macbeth to Jesus. I was a director. I was an audiobook narrator. I was a stuntman. I went all in with theatre. No back ups.

What happens when the only means of work you have and can do is not an option anymore?

Time to create something new. I was once a writer. Plays and poems. They got me through high school, a huge depression, and college. I dabbled from time to time since but then I fell back in love with it. I’d see visions, images, action, and a story in my head. I thought it out. Outlined it. Wrote it. The book is finished. No agent wants to read it. Should I write another one instead? Yes, I will. The outline has already begun. But I keep being drawn back to the one lying still. The story awaiting to be told.

The internet is a beautiful thing at times. As you, reader, are reading these very words from anywhere in the world, I can bring this story to you. And so I will. Told my way. No publishers or agents to tell me to take huge chunks out, or changes to be made. I can tell it with my own voice. The way I hear it in my head, I can sound it out to you. From author straight to the audience. It’s coming.

Production for The World to Come series shall begin soon. The first season will be the book awaiting to be read. Each chapter will be an episode, and the following seasons will be the books I had planned on writing.

Season One is entitled Ascendance.

For up to date news, follow my Twitter @TheShadowComes

The series will begin on YouTube. I will post the channel on here and all my social media channels once I get deep into production.

This journey has just begun. If you want you can follow me on social media such as Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok @theJasonSkinner and I will record the process. You can be apart of this journey with me. You can even lend your comments, suggestions, advice, ideas, and encouragement if you’d like.

This production will require background ambient music and sounds. Sound effects. Some of which I will create on my own, and others I will look for freebies. YouTube has a great library of free licensed material to be used. Hopefully, I can find the ones closest to the sounds I hear in my head. Images will be needed for the video aspect. As much as I wish I could create them myself, I’m not much of a visual artist. But I know what I’m looking for when I see it.

Be on the lookout on my social media and this site for future announcements and be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel @theJasonSkinner and I will eventually create the series channel itself.

Until next time.

Thanks for reading.