Canister X – A.P. Fuchs: Zombie, Paranormal Romance and Superhero Novelist, Blogger, Artist, Publisher

Coscom Entertainment and Torn Veil Books pretty much are one-man operations. My wife helps me out now and then–mailing stuff, helping at comic con–but doesn’t work for me directly nor spends her days by my side as I write, edit and package stories for you guys.

This year she might be joining the Fuchs publishing team–is it a “team” if it’s just one person? har har–and taking on some duties that take me away from making books and comics. So that’s what she and I are doing this afternoon: I’m training her on some bookkeeping so that, down the road, it’ll be something I don’t have to worry about. This is ultra exciting for me because, though I spend most of my time publishing others, I’m also a creator myself and have that burning desire within to get my ideas out on paper lest I go crazy. By my wife helping out, this will allow me more creative free time and allow me to write more books and draw more comics.

These are the current changes happening behind-the-scenes here at Fuchs Central, changes that I’m confident will lead to stronger and more successful publishing companies. But, of course, those who ultimately make or break us will be you guys. We hope you continue to support with us as we provide you with solid literary entertainment going into the New Year and beyond.

Those of you who are in my inner circle know that I keep very busy, usually with 7-8 projects on the go at any one time. Usually, those projects are not my own but those of whom I publish. Sometimes some of them are mine.

This year has been a hectic year, namely running from around July through September and into October in which I worked like a mad man, trying to get everything done for the C4 Comic Con. As a result, I burnt myself out and November was a hard month for me workwise. I’m anything but a lazy guy and in November I felt kind of empty inside, my drive and passion for what I do still there, but the desire to carry it out was muted. I was tired all the time. No matter how much sleep I got, it wasn’t enough. Something broke internally during the July – Sept. marathon and November was the month I paid the price for it.

Anyway, December was much more productive, and as we head into 2012, I’ve been thinking about what the beginning of the New Year will look like for me, both for my personal work and those that I publish. That said, I’m eager to get going, but am taking a Christmas break before getting back into the swing of things, ensuring I’m recharged to the max before going hardcore again.

As a starting point, I want to get back into daily blogging. I really enjoyed posting something daily for you guys and plan on getting back into that starting the New Year. Likewise, Zomtropolis will resume and will conclude. Free installments will be on Fridays like before. Then the book will be bigtime edited and prepped for publication. I’m still hoping to keep the book online for free once it’s done, whether as chapter-by-chapter like it is now, or a simple eBook download in a multitude of formats.

Also coming–I promise–will be the new Axiom-man book. I felt like a goon at C4 this year because I didn’t have a new Axiom-man story for the fans despite aiming to. Sure, I published a few new books this year, but Axiom-man is overdue for one–the last one, The Dead Land, was in 2008–so I need to get the latest adventure out before June 2012. I have to.

I also am going to wrap up The Undead World Trilogy.

Those aforementioned books are priority in 2012. Anything above and beyond that is bonus.

This is a little of what you can expect from me in the New Year.

In the meantime, Happy New Years, everyone. Hope it’s a good one. Stay safe. God bless.

Just FYI, but I’ll be starting holidays this Friday beginning at noon CST, and will be resuming business as usual January 10.

That means:

- Zomtropolis will still be posting on Fridays during the break
- daily blog posts will probably cease and be replaced by sporadic blog posts
- Coscom Entertainment is on temp hiatus, however I will be checking email periodically
- I won’t be online as much but will probably still be Tweeting regularly

Thanks for spending your time here at his blog throughout 2010, and for your support in reading my books and those of Coscom Entertainment.

Can’t wait to get back into daily blogging starting in January.

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year.

This year has been an interesting year for me creatively. I got done more writing this year than I had in 2009. I finished my book, Zombie Fight Night, released it; wrote 95% of Possession of the Dead, released it; edited and compiled my short story collection, Magic Man Plus 15 Tales of Terror, released it; and aside from a week or two here and there, kept up with my weekly installments of Zomtropolis.

All this on top of publishing and marketing books for Coscom Entertainment.

It’s been busy.

Looking ahead to the New Year, I have a pretty good idea what’s going on with me creative-wise, the main things being to write and publish the third and final book in my Undead World Trilogy; finish and publish Zomtropolis; and finish and publish the next Axiom-man novel. Those are priority. Anything else I write is just extra at this point.

Since I do most of my creative writing in the evenings, I need something to do during the dayjob, which is Coscom Entertainment.

So . . .

Next year we’re going to be publishing new novels by Lorne Dixon, Nickolas Cook, Ryan C. Thomas, Keith Gouveia, Eric S. Brown, W. Bill Czolgosz and more.

We’re going to see the mass market release of two Coscom Entertainment mash-ups (the reissues of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz (April 2011), and Alice in Zombieland by Lewis Carroll and Nickolas Cook (March 2011)), the continuation of the Coscom Entertainment Monster Novella line (the first of which, The Weaponer by Eric S. Brown, is already available on the Kinde here, with the paperback coming next week), more titles in the Coscom Blue Banner Classics line (current ones include, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey, all by Jane Austen), and other extra surprises and fun projects.

It’s going to be busy, but it’s going to be fun, and I hope you stick around for the ride.

And as if that wasn’t crazy enough, I’m going to attempt a regular comic book (probably a new issue every six weeks), and bring Axiom-man to the comic book world on a regular basis. It was comics that got me started in this business and I’ve been itching for the past three years to get hardcore back into it. It’s time I did something about that.

It sounds like a lot–and it is–but I have a plan to help keep things on track, and the support of the best team of authors around. Seriously, those I publish through Coscom Entertainment are amazing men and women who are not only awesome on the page, but also in real life as well. Please support them by checking out their books. They deserve it.

Okay, it’s back to work for me. Hope everyone else is having a productive day as well.