Escaping the Rage Machine (And a Cover Reveal!)

Rage is gone. Like, totally lost. My laptop broke and I just lost the entire novella. So it won't be coming out.

 Instead, I'm putting out a novella called We Die Like Angels, set in Midnight City - the same location as Things We Saw At Midnight. If you haven't read that, it doesn't really matter. This is its own thing.

 And it's very romantic and funny and dark and very gay. So yeah.

 Here's the cover:

I don't have a cover yet since I'm still outlining right now, but I'm estimating like, three or four days for drafting. Maybe five. And then around eight for editing - three days to let it sit and five days to actually edit. And then I can publish.

I dunno. I'm angry I lost an entire title I'd already drafted and was halfway done editing, but at the same time I wasn't in love with that story. I'll still publish it if I ever recover those files, but it seems unlikely.

This, though, I'm fascinated with. The idea of the main romance angle came to me in a dream, and I just knew it was a Midnight City kind of story.

The main character is a guy named Milo:


Who finds himself in a very bad situation, with a very antagonistic love interest. Who is a drug ring leader. And shameless flirt.

Other things? It's first person, present tense. It's edgy. It's really aesthetic. It's also super, super gay.

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