Getting the Wiki Weady 4 Weading
Over a year in the making, all 26 stories of the Succubus Wiki are finished…ok, 25 because I got lazy and made one story about a pair of sisters. It’s still 26 succubi, one for each letter of the alphabet, so stop yer complainin’. Six of the stories were contributed by the very talented Veronica Knight, so it’s also a two author anthology.
I have no idea if this sort of thing will even find a market. I emailed Evernight, pitching the concept to see if they think it might even be of interest to them since they don’t specifically address single author anthologies in their submission guidelines. They emailed back within a few hours (Great publisher, by the way. I have nothing but good things to say about Evernight.) wanting to read some. I emailed 3 stories (Bronwyn, Tasmin and Violet) with the Miss Lilith’s Guide to the Care and Keeping of Succubi introductory quotes. I dunno though. A part of me is tempted to self-publish just to try it. Another part says it’s too big to try to tackle on my own, with Veronica’s help, of course. After all, this has been my baby for a year.
All my other published stories were “stolen” from this master work and sold for other anthologies (then replaced with new stories). If I don’t do something soon, I’m afraid I’ll start a new round of cannibalism only this time not replacing.
Stay tuned if you want to watch how the life of a concept plays out.
Now…I need to write about something OTHER than succubi. My hubster says I should write a Naughty Fairy Tale for Evernight. If I do, it will be Guinevere and the Knights of Roundtable, where the heroes are Lance Knight and Arthur Knight (distant cousins) and they all live in Roundtable, USA. Bwahahahaha. Sounds like a bad porn movie doesn’t it. I could make it interesting though…I could!
How does the Wiki setup work for publishing? I thought about using it for linked publishing and my mind quickly went towards choose your own adventure style publishing with links in the story going to the next scene.
Doing a modern fairy tale sounds like a lot of fun. At the very least I like the names.
Good question, Covert. It’s not a true Wiki in the sense that everybody can contribute to it and it ultimately becomes a spiderweb of links to offshoot topics. I just liked the sound of the word “wiki” and it’s more modern sounding than “encyclopaedia”. The only givens are that every letter of the alphabet is covered by a story about a succubus whose name begins with that letter and there is a progressive tone to the stories from creation to redemption / HEA. I’m still experimenting with unique ways to package the collection of stories which is why I tickled Evernight with my initial idea–to see if there is any viability to the concept.
P.S. I like your interactive storytelling idea. That would be really fun to read.
You made a succubus fan out of me, Madam Lila. I’ve had the pleasure of reading a couple of your SSSs (short Succubi stories) and I cannot wait to get my hands on the Wiki. It will be a great success whether self-pubbed or through a publisher – just get it out there so we can all enjoy.
Love the Devil-Succubus graphic! Although sadly those abs remind me that I really need to hit the gym. 🙂