 Well, shake it, my name's Cam. Welcome back to another video. I wouldn't blame you if you've forgotten this, but I'm a writer. Whether I'm a good one or not is up for debate, but I do write. I haven't done many video updates on my actual writing for quite a while now, mostly because I just finished a book. Come on, stop that. Now, originally I planned for my psychological horror novel that I've been talking about on this channel for ages. I planned for it to come out at the end of October, like around Halloween, but as you know, we aren't living in the same world that we did back in January. My world's on fire. How about yours? The pandemic has shifted things up quite a lot with my actual day job, with my full-time job, and financially speaking, it just made more sense to push the date back a bit. Now, I'm not saying this is a definite release date, it could be sooner, it could be later, but at this point I'm planning for that psychological horror book to come out in mid-January. I'm genuinely really, really excited for it. I cannot wait to finally get this story out, to finally publish it. I really have just put a whole ton of hard work into this, and I'm pretty proud of how it turned out. And if I can be so bold, I really do think you'll like it. If you're a horror fan, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, by the way, I will leave a card up here for a video where I talk in-depth about what this book is that I'm releasing. So that's a fair ways down the road. You might be wondering what I've been doing in the meantime, because I finished writing that book quite a while ago. And if you're not wondering that, don't worry, I'll tell you anyway. You're welcome. I do have a bunch of other writing projects planned that ideally will not take two years to finish each. First and foremost, I should mention that I have a short story that's going to be coming out really soon, like on the 1st of October, actually. It's part of an author tube anthology. Have you heard about that one? I'm going to be making a full video about it when the book actually comes out, but it's called Local Haunts, and it was arranged by Regina over at Regina's Haunted Library. Check her out. Basically, she went around and contacted just a whole ton of writers within a author tube who have dabbled with horror before, and she got them to submit a horror short story, and she put them all together. And the really interesting thing about this is that all of us writers, we're from all over the world, and it's called Local Haunts because the stories that we focused on had to be based or grounded in some kind of local legend or mythology from where we live. I think that's going to make it just a super interesting mix of different stories. I really can't imagine just how much work and money that Regina has put into this. It's just unreal that she has gone out of her way this much to create this. Add to that the fact that all of the money from the sales of this book are going to charity. I think it's just super awesome that she did that, so please do check her out. As for my short story in that anthology, what I will tell you, it's pretty short so I can't tell you a whole lot, but what I will say is that it's my tribute or homage, I guess, to vintage campfire horror with a bit of an Australian twist. You'll see what I mean. What am I working on right now though? What am I working on as we speak? Well, I'm glad you asked. I actually have quite a bit of work already done on my own anthology of horror short stories. I think I've mentioned it very briefly, maybe a couple of times in the past. Yeah, it's my own anthology, all of my own horror short stories, all original, and I'm really, really excited to finish this one. I'm planning for it to come out maybe like two or three months tops after the psychological horror novel, and I'm really excited for this one because I think some of the short stories are pretty damn interesting, if I may say so myself. I feel like a lot of the short stories that I'm writing for this anthology have that kind of bizarre element, that bizarre element that you usually find in short stories written by authors like Joe Hill, or maybe even the clips of the anthology show Black Mirror. To be clear, I'm definitely not saying they are on the same level as those things, but they're a little bit out there, I guess. I'm having a lot of fun writing them. Hopefully you'll have a lot of fun reading them. They're certainly not as depressing as the psychological horror novel, so take that how you will. I obviously don't want to give too much away about the actual stories in the anthology yet because it's still very much a work in progress, but what I will say is that I did just finish one short story that was a hell of a lot of fun to write. It's about an office worker who is becoming very disenfranchised, or he's very much struggling with the agonizing monotony of his day job and his humdrum life, until he's looking for a new video game to play on his console, and he comes across a mysterious and unexplainable game hidden away. I can't believe you've done this. Last but not least, I want to tell you about perhaps my most ambitious project that I have on the books. This one is kind of a big one, but it's something that I'm hoping I can be writing for years and years. Basically, it's an adult fantasy series set in an entirely fictional world. I've been working pretty hard on creating a thorough world plan, doing a whole lot of world plotting, including what I feel are some pretty unique creatures, characters, monsters, places, classes of people, and even races. I'm gonna tell you straight up, it won't be as intricate as like Tolkien's work or George R. R. Martin's world as far as full world building goes, and I never planned for it to be. Originally, I was thinking of making it a trilogy, but as I was working on all of the outlining and planning for this series, specifically when I was doing all of the planning around the two central characters, I kind of realised something. Both the world and these characters would be much better suited to more of an episodic, long-running fantasy, meaning primarily that I could be writing this series indefinitely, following many many different plot lines and self-contained adventures. Now there are going to be major A plots obviously through the series, kind of in the background until it builds up towards a climax, but for the most part I would think of it kind of like a TV show seasons. I guess it could be kind of like Supernatural, Monster of the Week kind of system. There are episodes where there is a little storyline that stays within that episode, but there's always something bigger happening in the background that gets more and more critical until BAM! Showdown. So I can't say a whole lot more about that series right now because that is that is well and truly in construction. I've only just started like the planning for that series, let alone starting the actual writing, but I will tell you about the two central characters because that's something that I don't feel is going to change a whole lot as I keep working on the plotting of this series. So they're two best friends, maybe in their early 30s as far as age goes, and they have known each other since they were kids and they work together as hands for hire. That's not what it will be called in the books, there'll be a name for it that I haven't come up with yet, but basically they do jobs that no one else wants to or can for a pretty high price and a lot of the time that is going to go outside of the law. And the very first book is going to start with a prison break. So that's it. That's literally everything I have planned as far as writing goes for now. If you watched the video this far, thank you. I really do appreciate you having even that much interest in what I'm writing and what I'm working on. It really means a lot. Hey, let me know what you're working on. Thanks for watching guys. Catch ya.