Serialization Stories

A weekly serial focused around the girls within the autocratic Staryan Empire. This story will touch on themes of religion, nationalism, and rebellion from the social norms, as well as many other topics that affect these girls' lives. Please feel free to give criticism (constructive or not), as well as tell if I am misrepresenting anything. Please excuse the placeholder image. My thumb bends too far back and drawing is a pain. If this gets enough attention, I'll try to secure an image (No AI).

Meg Little desperately wants to be editor-in-chief of the Haverton Gazette after the former editor resigns to complete a stint in rehab for a raging Adderall addiction. When Margaret Bean, Haverton Prep’s star equestrian, is bucked from her horse two weeks before regionals, Meg believes she may have found the story that will win her the coveted editorship. Margaret’s a gold medal-winning rider – she doesn’t make mistakes. But the rest of the school buys her fall as an accident. Even the Gazette’s lead photographer and Meg’s best friend Stephen thinks the fall was innocuous – until Meg shows him a photo of Margaret’s horse sporting a cut saddle after Margaret’s fall. Clearly the “accident” was sabotage. Meg’s prime suspect: Margaret’s teammate and Meg’s arch-nemesis Kitty Cooper. Kitty’s the only member of the team who was MIA after the fall and she’s acting way too shifty for Meg’s taste. Against Margaret’s wishes to let broken girls lie, Meg launches an investigation into the girls’ private lives convinced her amateur sleuthing will uncover the evidence needed to take down Kitty once and for all. As regionals approaches and the investigation veers off in unexpected directions, Meg learns the students of Haverton are far more dangerous than their plaid skirts and blazers suggest – and all the little liars on Margaret’s team have something to hide.

Delmarva was a quiet town until Eve moved in and started unpacking trouble. Now pressed by an enemy he doesn't understand Aaron must pursue his pursuers and uncover the mystery plaguing his fair town.

NANOWRIMO project 2020. I'm aiming to publish 1600 words each day. Thanks for keeping me motivated! Gang warfare is taking over the city. The people are hopeless and live in fear. Ed Carter takes it upon himself to clean things up. To do this he must battle his past, join forces with unlikely heroes, and be willing to take on all challengers. Ed Carter is the principal of the worst high school in the city. He patrols the hallways, breaking up fights, sending skipping students back to class, and keeping an eye on his ragtag team of teachers. His battles with booze have left him as run down as his school. Jimmy "The Pistol" Henry has hung up his boxing gloves after he lost vision in his right eye in a street fight gone horribly wrong. Now he's reinventing himself as a boxing trainer. He's looking to take on any students he can and set his reputation right. When the school board gives Ed Carter an ultimatum: clean up yourself and your school or find a new job, he finds himself at the end of the line. Will Carter find the strength he lost and take his school back?

Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toronto's a lot further away than it used to be. Clio suggests that Okie transport Sumatra across the border, because family is family. But coaching Okie by cellphone isn't easy, and Clio has some zombies of her own to contend with. Luckily she has some garden tools. Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood team up for this unusual two-hander. Encompassing love, death, sex, and the meaning of family, The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home will surprise, delight, and convince you of the vital importance of keeping ready supplies of rhubarb and mini-wieners in your freezer at all times. The story unfolds beginning October 24.

Love writing but find it hard to finish projects? Looking for a new approach to telling stories? Embracing serialisation can help you be more productive and get more readers. In this guide I share what I've learned while writing A Day of Faces, my serial which hit #7 in the science fiction chart here on Wattpad, won a 2016 Watty Award and has had over 146,000 reads. My current Wattpad serial is The Mechanical Crown - come join the adventure! You can find out more about my projects at simonkjones.com and support my writing on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/simonkjones