Media in other forms or hey anime shorts on YouTube

Okay I blog about a lot of things.  On wordpress you can find my blogs and the perils of writing, examples of my writing, a cooking blog and a photography one.  But like everyone else under the age of 90 I am a fan of lots of media.

I watch tv, movies, listen to music, read books and even browse around on youtube.  Something cool that my hubby found yesterday for the family to watch was an anime series of very short eps based on the SD gundam.  As I have been learning to build these fun little guys I wanted to see the series that they are based on.

Of the first 6 or so eps I have watched I find it both funny and actually pretty good at the same time.  Yes it has a lot of the typical anime bits.  Three heroes who combine for a bigger, stronger fighter.  Bad dialog from the villains and the token female (this is for the male audience) character.  But the best part is this little series is great for the entire family.  Titled Brave Battle Warriors (I know but that is what it translates to) this is something that both parents and kids could sit down and watch.  Each episode is about 12 minutes long  and while there is a lot of cliche here, it is pure fun.  Fun in the old style of fun from when we adults were kids.

Anime has come a long way since I was first intriduced to it way back in the 60s.  Back then it was Speed Racer and Kimba the white lion.  Now you get the redux of Ghost in the Shell and the soon to be released Captain Harlock in CG.  Just pulling out my old VHS tapes of things like Wedding Peach or Bastard can send me back in time yet inspire me to new views of the world.

Japan has given the world a lot of amazing artwork over the years with mangas like Mushishi and Far, Far Away.  They have given us things like DragonBall Z (the never ending) and now they have given us a world stuffed full of tiny little robot warriors who are living out ancient legends.  Retelling stories that are a part of their cultural heritage while putting those tales into a format that the current crop of kids will enjoy.  That is both smart marketing (IE the model kits) and smart teaching.

As a writer I try to tell my tales in a way that will catch an audience and I have been known to take an existing legend and twist it around to fit my story.  I like that they have taken cultural history tales and twisted the characters to fit the story.  Try looking this up on YouTube.  I bet you will want to watch them all.

I keep doing it! Forgetting to comment over here!

Well I will have to reorganize all my links so I can post here too!

I have been very busy since my last post back in January.  I put out Revenge finally.  For those of you reading this and not in the know that is the second book of the Saga of Loralil Greyfox.  The first book has been reviewed with a solid four star ranking so far.  People think that is it dark..and well yeah it is.  Revenge is also but in a different way.  I can only hope that the readers of Endings will be looking forward to reading the longer and better written sequel.

Yesterday I put up a new story in the Death Walks Through short story series.  The story is titled The Red Ghost Rides and it is a short short but still a fun retelling of an old American south western legend.  I hope people will look for it where ever they buy ebooks.  There will be a fifth story in that series up once I get my butt in gear and make a cover.

I have also made two new book trailers.  Endings can be found both on youtube like all my trailers and it is the first of my trailers up on viveo.  You can see it here.

https://vimeo.com/61005423

I am about halfway through my next novel. The Traveler is a lighter (for me) fantasy novel.  This one might just fit in the YA category, or so I hope.  After all that is a huge market right?

I have also started putting up my really short short stories over on Wattpad.  These will be freebies to let people see how I write.  The first one, In Space No One Can Hear You Scream, was written as part of a Halloween short story contest on amazon's Space station discussion group.  It was so much fun that I have written two more that will go up, you guessed it, when I make covers for them!.  I plan on posting a longer story too, A Bargain with Fur.  That is a retelling of a Japanese folk story inspired by a filk song I have.  While I could probably sell it I don't feel right doing so but I hope people will enjoy it.

Now I thought I had put Sins of the Father up on Wattpad but I was wrong.  That fan fiction greatest hits (for me) is up over on Goodreads.  Anyone who wants to reread (or read for the first time) my most popular story you can find it there.