Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
It’s all true. Penelope Sea and Ocean End will be sold through Amazon, published by me. The Kindle edition is out now! A print edition is on its way. Once it is out, if you buy the print edition you can get the Kindle edition for free. You have so many options!
Chapter Ten, the final chapter, of Penelope Sea and Ocean End posted yesterday on The LeEMS Bean. If you were avoiding reading it because you don’t like waiting a week for conflict resolution (why I can’t stand most TV shows), then you are in luck because all of the story is posted!
Chapter Nine of Penelope Sea and Ocean End has posted on The LeEMS Bean. What will happen to Penelope? How will her journey end? Next week’s posting of the final chapter, chapter ten, will answer all your burning questions.
I’ve talked about it, and I have constantly deflected questions and nagging from a friend who thinks it is good and I ‘need to get off my butt and edit it already.’ Penelope Sea and Ocean End is the first book I ever wrote. It’s not even 20,000 words – which is hilarious in light of my NaNoWriMo endeavors.
Well, I can finally say that I have edited it. Just finished. And I have tackled all the things about it that I didn’t like and that had kept me from editing for so long because I thought it was going to be difficult. Silly me.
I want to say ‘project done.’ It feels good. I get to cross something off a list now and go on to finish another unfinished manuscript.
I’ve also been given the order to shop it around to publishers, so I guess I’m going to try that. If I should fail, you can be assured that I’ll just end up posting the entirety right here, like I do with my comic submissions. Until that day, I’ll give you Chapter One.
PENELOPE SEA AND OCEAN END
Chapter 1
Penelope Sea sat alone at the end of a lunch table in the cafeteria of her new elementary school. She hadn’t made any friends yet. She didn’t want to make new friends She wanted to be with her old friends, in her old school, in her old town. All the children here looked at her funny, and the food that the pink-haired lunch lady served didn’t taste right. Although she had only been enrolled in Dolphin Elementary for one week, Penelope decided she definitely did not like it here.
The only thing Penelope did like about having moved towns, moved houses, and moved schools was her very own personal house key. She wore it on a shiny silver chain around her neck. Penelope was only eight. She thought she was special because after school she got to stay at home while her parents worked.
Another story that I had been sitting on is up on the Bean, only not completely sitting. I printed up some copies of “Peachtree” one year for Christmas and bound them and made cloth covers and gave them away. I didn’t manage to make one for my own shelves, though. I’ll have to fix that. So now ya’ll can read it too. “Peachtree” is a story about another town in Ocean End. Have you noticed a theme by now? After writing Penelope Sea and Ocean End, I got to thinking about the environment, and I got to reading more Carl Sandburg, and then I got to writing about the non Penelope Sea bits of Ocean End. I should probably write more. I might even just do that.
Here is a valentine’s gift for you. I write stories. I know I talked about it before, but I haven’t really shared any of them. And I am testing a new post-type thingy on the Bean. Here is Little River Love Story on The LeEMS Bean. Only terribly influenced by Carl Sandberg’s Rutabaga Stories, and sitting around in my computer for years. Hope you enjoy.
Chapter Six of Penelope Sea and Ocean End just posted on The LeEMS Bean