Brittany Maresh

writer

Today I saw the cover for Rachel Caine’s second Outcast Season book, Unknown. (I love Rachel Caine). There’s a blond girl in black on a sportsbike on the cover.  She’s nothing like Alexis—high heels? And no helmet? And blond?—but it evoked New Rochester so strongly that I was stopped dead on my Forever Fifteen progress, possibly for the whole night.

I went to my webpage (oh, that’s here!) to consider updating it, since Forever Fifteen wasn’t going well, and I saw the fall colors, and what little non-New Rochester thoughts were left disappeared. It would be winter in the city just now, and their holiday seasons are spectacular. I was daydreaming but still intent on doing something other than writing a New Rochester holiday short, and then Alexis’s song came up on the radio.  I won’t say which song, beyond it being Linkin Park, though, for fear of being laughed off the internet.

To get to the point, a New Rochester Holiday Short is in the works. I don’t know what will become of it, but if you ask nicely, it might go up on my website as a holiday gift for you all.

I guess holidays are home time, and for me, that includes New Rochester.

Sincerely,

Brittany Maresh

I was a huge X-Files fan as a child.   Lately, it’s where I’m drawing inspiration from.  Not to say I have aliens anywhere in my worlds, or conspiracies.  It’s more that I like the dynamics.  The character struggles. It makes me want to tinker and play with my latest chapters.  It’s the mechanics of faith versus a lack there of.  Scully doesn’t believe.  Mulder believes.  I have a similar pair in my world.

On another front, I’m trying to convince my writing group that we need to do another retreat.  Something where we sequester ourselves away and don’t let ourselves eat until we’ve finished a query letter.  Or, at least, until I’ve finished a query letter.

And besides, we can use the time to discuss NaNoWriMo!

-Bri