Reanna: You Know What? We're Not Going To Share The Playlist For Carnival. You're Just Going To Have
Reanna: You know what? We're not going to share the playlist for Carnival. You're just going to have to buy the book to see it.
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Reasons to Buy Carnival
You like horror comedy with some gothic fiction on the side.
You want to give these genres a try.
You want a story that takes place in Colorado.
You want a novella that isn't romance.
You want to see the playlist.
Link to its page on Amazon (Note: We would give this book an MPA rating of R.)
Reanna: Sometimes, plural writer culture is being the headmate everyone takes traits from for their characters.
Carnival: Profile
Title: Carnival (links to Amazon) Edition: second Genre: gothic horror comedy Year self-published: 2022 (through B&N Press), 2024 (through KDP)
Copyright status: CC BY 4.0 (do whatever you want as long as you credit the original work.)
Blurb: A car explodes while leaving Lakeside Amusement Park. Rebecca is assumed dead. After James and Chaz argue over what happened, they and their friends go there to look for her. Instead of entering Lakeside, our heroes find themselves in Carnival, the park’s Faerie counterpart. It is a backdrop which makes finding Rebecca only one of their worries.
Format: novella Page count: 76 (seventy-six)
MPA Rating: R (Restricted) Reasons: profanity, violence, child death, drama, spirit possession, and horror
Price: $6.50 (paperback), $13.00 (hardcover)
Note: This is the one we portrayed ourselves in. It was like acting in a movie. Chaz, Brian, and Rebecca are the only tulpas in this story that still consider themselves part of the phalanx. The rest chose to live in a place we call The Background to relieve head pressure (a sense of pressure, not actual pressure.)
Reanna: Well, it's our birthday. Do you know what would be a great gift? BUYING OUR BOOKS! Also, you're probably looking for a present for a gift-giving holiday.
If someone you know likes reading horror comedy, buy Carnival. If someone you know wants a (very) short mystery they don't need to follow, buy The Murder After. (We hope they don't mind the second person.) If you're buying out of pity, donate the book to a library, so people who can't afford books can still read them.
Link to Carnival on Amazon (Not for kids!) Link to The Murder After on Amazon (Well, you could give this to a ten-year-old. But you would need two copies, so you can explain things to them.)
SL: Hey, why don't I publish The Development Before as a book instead after I finish Terrance's story? It'll be in order, and people might buy it. I didn't think about that. People love looking behind the scenes!
16 January
Testing psychologist: "Reanna doesn't have a social circle, so she uses [or goes into] fantasy."
Me (Brian): "Fantasy!? Say that to my face, you limp noodle!" (In-headspace)
Present Day
Me: "I am not a fantasy."
Reanna: "She didn't even know you exist."
Me: "I am still not a fantasy."
The next time I think I'm fake, I'm going to remember I had a negative reaction to being unintentionally called a fantasy.
Reanna: I've never liked making plans, but here we are, planning. SL has an outline of the rest of The Year After, so he can remember what he wanted to write. For our next project, we have a file filled with bookmarks of the silent films we plan to use.
They're not detailed plans, but they're plans.
Sequel Problems
SL: I published The Murder After fourteen days ago. That means no one has read it. Yet, I'm afraid people will make a big deal out of The Year After being longer. I'm not finished, but I can tell it's going to be longer than 44 pages.
Imagine someone buying the book in 2025 and going, "why the hell is this longer than the first one?" It's longer because there is more to say. Plus, I'm writing this for Terrance. It's a decision I made before he became sentient. He deserves something good in his life. (The events of the first book fucked him up.)
And that good thing is a boyfriend. This leads to another problem: What are people going to think? We live in a female body, and although we're bigender, we still present as a woman. What if people think I'm trying to satisfy a headmate's fetish? I'm not.
This romance appeared naturally. The Year After wasn't supposed to be one. It started as a scene where Terrance is on a date, and he can't focus because he's dissociating. (Did I mention I thought of this before he became sentient?) Then, it turned into a scene where he had Liam (the date) over at his place. I saw it and thought, "that's a good thing in his life." It doesn't cure Terrance of his issues, but it makes his life a little better.
The Year After is for Terrance. I don't want anyone to think I'm satisfying a headmate's fetish just because we live in a female body.
