Enjoy the Journey - Looking forward to 2016

Looking forward to 2016

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 In the coming year, there are many projects that have peeked my interest. The task of planning out a year is not something new for me, but in the sense of Purrett Productions as a business it definitely lends to a grander scale.
 I will try and keep it succinct by placing the projects already in motion or currently under development on the list.

NOVELS

LAND OF MISTASIA - KRAYLAN'S SPIRIT (BOOK 4)

Land of Mistasia

  Young Readers - After a tremendous response to the Land of Mistasia trilogy this fall, I have begun working on a new installment to the series. When, the short story, Grace's Quest, was released in early 2014 it seemed as though the story line for Mistasia had been completed. I even wrote a blog about it.
 Yet, after Gossamer Pen, in November 2014 a new story began to develop regard said pen and its origin. Since the end of the Mistasia trilogy, I have been receiving questions about a possible fourth book. Well, I am happy to announce that it is finally going to happen. The tentative release date is April this year, but I will post more information, as well as sample chapters closer to the books release!  In the meantime, here is the epilogue from Gossamer Pen which ties into the new Land of Mistasia story. (Kraylan's Love)
  

WORLD OF ANGORA

www.WorldofAngora.com

  Adult Sci-fi - The World of Angora has been a massive undertaken that has spanned three unreleased novels and a decade of plotting, developing, writing and rewriting. This is truly a labor of love at this point.
  2016 will be the year of Angora, no not the rabbit, the World of Angora. Humags, the tentative title for the first release will make its debut in late summer, probably around August. The first draft was completed in 2012, and needs a second draft this spring before final editing.

www.worldofangora.com

  A second novel, titled Factors, is also slated for a release at the end of 2016. This is a separate storyline, but ties back to the whole within World of Angora. It will definitely help the readers understand the scope of what I have spent the past decade planning.
  This story dates back quite a bit further in my attempts in writing for this series. I finalized the first draft of Factors back in 2008, and it has a considerable amount of dust. It will need a strong second draft and edit from my beautiful wife before it hits shelves. This one could possible find itself delayed until 2017, but I am optimistically shooting for a November release.

VIDEOS

PURRETT YOUTUBE CHANNEL

EDDY & CRIC - THE EDIBLES

 At the end of the first ecletic season of Eddy & Cric cartoons we were introduced to Eddy Kit's nemesis for the upcoming season.  The character known currently as Frank Meyer will announce is evil intentions and his villain name. He will also bring about the beginning of a new group of super villains know as The Edibles.
  This season Gossamer Studio plans to release a cartoon each month from Eddy & Cric. It will follow a comic book style story arch and introduce new heroes to help Eddy & Cric!

THE CONFUSED STORYTELLER
  This new parody series will focus on popular movies from 2016 and intersperse other pop culture icons. The first to appear is scheduled to be MUPPET WARS, featuring the lovable Muppets in the Star Wars universe.

SUPER HEROES' WORST FEARS
  Batman will return in his ridiculous parody cartoon. He will team up with sidekick, Robin, as they attempt to determine the worst fears of super heroes that Batman deems dangerous.

COMICS

KILLER'S ARENA

Coming October 2016

  This will be our first "true" comic book intended for more mature audiences. It will be a part of the World of Angora universe, but actually take place on a futuristic Earth. The comic will follow the life of a man known as The Hunter.
  The initial story-arch has been developed, and the first ten issues outlined so there is plenty of work to do on this project which is also slated to hit in the fall of 2016. I will also most likely not be the artist on this project, but will write the scripts.

DESIGNS
My wife and I have been working on a variety of t-shirt ideas for adults. The name ego Impressions was derived after I had developed a few ridiculous and egotistical phrases. My wife said that I should "put that on a shirt" on more than a few occasions. Those particular shirts have yet to arrive in our online store and probably won't until Fall 2016 at the earliest.
  That has not kept this side of our business from creating other designs; however, as our youth shirts for Land of Mistasia and Gossamer Pen are available with more to come.

EVENTS
 I will continue to make appearances through out the Metro Detroit area in 2016 at Schools, Hospitals, Comic cons, Mom 2 Mom sales and Arts & Craft Shows. If you or someone you know is interested in having Purrett Productions attend an event, just contact me directly at christophermpurrett@gmail.com

Christopher M. Purrett

www.purrett.com

Enjoy The Journey

Purrett.com - A Year In Review

Purrett.com - A Year in Review 2015

  2015 ushered in a wide variety of new adventures at Purrett.com. I personally took a step away from writing novels and ventured out into uncharted territory. Here is a recap of 2015 for Purrett.com...Enjoy the Journey!

WEB COMICS - GOSSAMER PEN 

Gossamer Pen #1

 This year actually began with the completion of Gossamer Pen (the novel) in November of 2014. After releasing the novel, I found myself working on character sketches. At that time, I had not worked on any comics, but decided to test out my hand at the medium. Since I was in middle school, I had been in art classes and loved sketching and creating different characters. All the artwork in my novels and on Purrett.com came from my own hand (sometimes with assistance from my youngest daughter), so that played a big roll in my decision to start on the comic version of Gossamer Pen.  On February 10, 2015, Gossamer Pen Comic #1 was released on Purrett.com.  This digital comic was originally only available on the website. It consisted of just 6 pages and told the story from chapter 1 in the original novel. That became the overall premise of the comics; each digital issue would be a chapter from the novel, Gossamer Pen.

Gossamer Pen Vol 1

 During the next seven months, five more digital comics were completed. On September 29, those web-comics were combined into a single print comic (which is more like a short graphic novel), Gossamer Pen Comic Vol. 1. That completed the first third of the original novel and introduced most of the creatures that were freed from Kyra's notebook.

PURRETT PRODUCTIONS, LLC. 

In August, Purrett Productions, LLC was formed. It is a small company, basically just myself; however, it is intended to become a family business in the future. My wife, Misty, acts as my editor. My oldest daughter, Lea, is a tremendous writer, mostly of poetry. My youngest daughter, Kyra, is probably the most talented of us all. She is an artist and storyteller. My dream is to one day have all four of us working together within the company, hence the name...Purrett Productions.

There is, however, more to the name than that. I am one of two brothers born to John Purrett and at this time, we will sadly be the last of the Purretts in our line. Both my brother and I have had two daughters, so that played a large part in me titling the company.

  My brother, David, also works with me, mostly behind the scenes assisting in technical areas that are out of my realm of expertise.

  

PURRETT.COM (VERSION 3)

 In August, the new website launched at Purrett.com. As Purrett Productions. LLC became a company, the website moved from ChristopherMPurrett.com to its new home.  It featured an all new color scheme, new logo and streamlined layout. The main focus was the company instead of me as an author. That change in philosophy was largely in part to the broadening scope from solely novels to adding comics, design and animation.  In September, an online store was also added.

GOSSAMER STUDIO

Since I was a child, I loved cartoons. I loved to draw too! I had even spent the past decade writing stories. It was inevitable, with today's technology, that animation would become an integral part of this new company. I began referring to this part of the company as Gossamer Studio. Our YouTube Channel - Purrett, launched in September.

  On October 8, the very first Eddy & Cric animated cartoon was released titled "Meet The Kits". 

Eddy & Cric - The Cosplay (episode 6)

   By the end of the year, Gossamer Studio released 8 cartoons featuring Eddy & Cric, a Batman parody titled Super Heroes' Worst Fears, and 4 kids cartoons.

ego Impressions Designs

Along with Gossamer Studio, we developed another subsidiary of Purrett Productions, LLC. titled ego Impressions. It is the design side of the company that handles logos, websites and creation of any print media that is needed for adversiting, marketing or retail.

  During the year, ego Impressions was responsible for many designs; however, it will play a much larger role in development in the coming year with regards to t-shirt creation for our online store.

Land of Mistasia Heroes T-Shirt Design

2015 held a pretty large scope, most of which happened in the last 5 months. It has been an amazing journey so far, and I can't wait to see what 2016 brings!

Christopher M. Purrett

www.purrett.com

Enjoy The Journey

MISTASIA - 5 Things you should know...

MISTASIA - 5 Things you should know...

  We are only a few short days away from the release of Mistasia Anthology. A compilation of all 5 stories from the Land of Mistasia. With that in mind, I wanted to prepare those that may be taking the journey to Mistasia for the first time and give you some things you should know...

  Mistasian Math – In Greenville; Phillip Harper and the Whizzenmog twins live in our world…actually a small town named after one in Michigan, but that’s another story (Click Here). The Land of Mistasia is a place beyond their imagination until Rachel Whizzenmog is kidnapped by a snake at the request of the evil King Cragon Cadieux. The kids find a way to defeat King Cragon and save Mistasia in the first novel, however, in Return to Mistasia (2012) the kids discover that there is a time difference between the two worlds. They find out that every day in Mistasia is only an hour in Greenville. In Return to Mistasia it has been nearly six months since Phillip and the Whizzenmog twins had left Mistasia. Rachel does the ‘Mistasian Math’ and realizes that it has been more than 13 years in Mistasia!

  Transformations – For those that have read my previous blogs, you would know that the Land of Mistasia wasn’t the original storyline that I created back in 2007. The stories were originally for my first daughter…children’s tales about a frog and fox, named Phillip and Whizzy. The current rendition came about a few years later after my daughter had started elementary school. Therefore, I decided to have the kids transform into animals when they entered the Land of Mistasia. That also meant I had to decide what to do with the characters that came to Greenville. If you traveled to Mistasia what would you transform into?

  Family or Foe – I have been asked if my childhood was troubled…mostly because I am a rather strange individual, but somewhat because of the reoccurring theme in my books about family betrayal. Just for the record, I had a very ‘normal’ childhood. My family is just a bit off-center on the humor side, but otherwise very loving and supportive. I guess these themes appear out of fear and heartache to those that have experienced these type of betrayals. The characters in Mistasia, have many family ties…some obvious and others hidden until the betrayal hits. I have always believed that your family is the greatest support system you have, and when that crumbles around you…especially at a young age I can only imagine how devastating it can be. Moral of these stories...cherish those around you or they may turn their back on you.

  Colors - I have an quirk about colors. I find them to spark interesting things in people; feelings that they may have not realized. I use these colors in my stories to evoke feelings or tell the readers something about a character.
   Colors for the main characters in Land of Mistasia were chosen to express their personality traits; Phillip the frog is green, Whizzy is fiery red and Rachel is a golden color. Even the villians colors were chosen to cause alarm. Ethan Whizzenmog, the snake man, is bright yellow with deep red eyes...it screams avoid me at all costs.

  Special Powers – What cool story doesn’t have someone with special powers? I have to say that everyone has something special about them, whether it is the size of their heart or their inner strength. Sometimes, we don’t even realize the powers we have within ourselves. In my writings, I love to explore those small powers and expound upon them, making them even more influential than they are. Think about it, even having the ability to control a crowd simply by speaking to them, gaining their trust and devotion is an extraordinary ability…it is one freedom our country is built upon.

  All the characters in Mistasia and Greenville have a power, whether they realize it or not. When Phillip, Rachel and Whizzy travel to Mistasia they discover theirs and must learn to adapt and control those talents to use them in aiding their efforts against the evils they face.

  Hope you enjoyed the journey through the Land of Mistasia. If you haven't yet...what are you waiting for? Go to my website and read sample chapters!

Mistasian Anthology available from Amazon  OCTOBER 7, 2014.

CONTACT CHRISTOPHER M. PURRETT @

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Copyright 2014: Christopher M. Purrett

MISTASIA - Behind the Scenes

MISTASIA - Behind the Scenes

            On October 7th, 2014, the Mistasia Anthology, a collection of all 5 stories, will become available in paperback through Amazon. In celebration of this event I wanted to take the opportunity to give you some behind the scenes information about the Land of Mistasia.

Where Mistasia & Greenville came from?

            When I began writing these stories and realized that I was going to need two worlds it was a rather easy decision for me to choose the names. Both have special meaning for me and my wife. Mistasia is simply a bed. That’s right. A bed. When my wife and I started dating I visited her at her apartment in college and in her bedroom was possibly the largest bed I had seen anyone under the age of 5o sleeping in…I still had half of a bunk bed that I shared with my little brother at that time. I jokingly called it ‘Mistasia’. The first part ‘Mist’, is a variation of my wife’s first name, Misty, and the last, ‘Asia’, joking about the beds size…I named it after the largest continent on the planet. There you have it…Mistasia was born. Something that my grandchildren can hopefully tell their grandchildren a hundred years from now when they speak of their crazy old great-great grandpa…wow that makes me like 140 years old in my head (not pretty).

      The small town of Greenville actually exists…well sort of. There is a town in Southwest-Michigan named Greenville, and I have never even been there. That’s correct…I have never even seen it. I named Phillip and the Whizzenmog’s home town Greenville more for the sentimental value the name has for me and my wife. When we were in college, we had a somewhat frightening and hilarious experience in a park lot that ended in a strange individual screaming the word ‘GREENVILLE’ from a passenger window of their car. A couple was lost and pulled into the park lot next to Misty and I to ask for directions (this was way before cell phones and navigational devices). These two actually had a paper map…google that one kids. The frustrated passenger leaned toward the window and began screaming their destination…the town of Greenville, and so I adopted the name for this and other future story lines.

Names – Harper, Cadieux

            One of the more difficult obstacles I have encountered as a writer is naming my characters. You may be shocked by that, but I worry that the name will be mispronounced, or unintentionally funny or offensive. The storyline itself usually works out as you write…at least that is what I tell my daughter who is a very talent writer of poetry, but struggles with telling structured stories. I found out in my brief time as a writer (nearly 10 years now) that the characters will dictate the details and move the story in ways you never dreamed possible. When naming my characters, I again added some personal touches like I did with Mistasia and Greenville.

      Harper – the last name of the storytelling character in Land of Mistasia is one of a number of street names located in the southeastern part of Michigan where I have worked since 2000. The company that I have worked for moves me periodically to different locations and Harper is the street where I held my first management position in the summer of 2000.  Cadieux – the name of the ruling family in Mistasia was another street name that runs into the town of Grosse Pointe.

Story origin

            Like many other authors that I have read and respect greatly, I have written a few stories that have been unceremoniously thrown in the trash can. In 2006, I began crafting outlines for a series of currently unrealized stories called the World of Angora. After writing two full novels, over 600 pages and 100,000 words, I decided that neither were quite good enough. Those weren’t the only stories that have been redesigned though. The Land of Mistasia was crafted from a series of children’s stories I wrote in 2007 called Phillip & Whizzy. (Here is one of those stories) Sound familiar? Obviously these were the main characters in the Land of Mistasia novel that was released in 2011.

            Phillip was a frog and Whizzy a fox. Neither had any powers, but were children in a town similar to Greenville that found themselves in situations that my 5 year old daughter would experience. A few years later, after throwing away two World of Angora novels and growing seriously frustrated with the whole idea of writing in general, I revisited the Phillip and Whizzy concept. My oldest daughter had been in elementary school for a few years now and I needed to update the storyline to suit her reading level. The animals became boys…that transformed into animals in Mistasia. I added a sister for Whizzy, who became the heroin of the story. Grace Tallon was added originally as a guide and to help move the story along, but she quickly became far more than that. As I said before, the characters begin to write themselves and Grace became such an important character she earned her own novella, Grace’s Quest (2014).

Original Trilogy vs Novellas

            There are 5 stories currently; an original trilogy, followed by two novellas.

                  The original trilogy consists of: Land of Mistasia (2011), Return to Mistasia (2011) and Last Emerald (2012). Land of Mistasia is the original story. It has its own ending and for those that are unaware…isn’t the end to the story of Mistasia. Return to Mistasia takes place around Christmas of the same year and is a cliffhanger. It leads the reader to the final part of the trilogy, Last Emerald. There was an outline for 4 stories in the beginning, but as the story unfolded it ended with Last Emerald.

                  Not ready to put these characters aside, I did as many authors / storytellers do…I went into the past and told the back story of a character from Land of Mistasia in the first novella. Whizzenmog Betrayal (2013) is the story of Ethan Whizzenmog, one of Sorcerer LaCroiux’s minions when we first met him. He kidnaps Rachel from her basement in Greenville and drags her into the portal to Mistasia starting the original story. In Whizzenmog Betrayal, we learn how this simple wizard fox turned to the darkness of sorcery.

                  Last, but not least, is the story of Grace Tallon. She unexpectedly became one of my favorite characters. Strong, self reliant and courageous, Grace is the protector to Queen Merran Cadieux. In Grace’s Quest (2014), we find out what happens in Mistasia after the defeat of Cragon Cadieux. It leads us into the story Return to Mistasia and gives us the explanation of what was happening in Mistasia while Phillip and the Whizzenmog twins had begun high school back in Greenville.

                  That was the end…or so I believed. I even wrote a blog about ending my journey with the characters that had become so much a part of my family’s lives. (Read Here) I had even started writing a new story called Gossamer Pen. In that story, two girls find a magical pen that brings to life anything drawn with it. It also takes place in the small town of Greenville. When I went back to answer one important question…where did the Gossamer Pen come from, I found a whole new story open up for Mistasia.

                  Cragon’s Revenge will be the story to tell about the Gossamer Pen’s retrieval from Greenville and its powers in Mistasia. I plan to begin writing it in early 2015 and releasing it in February 2016.

    

                  In the Gossamer Pen, there are many references and appearances by the characters from Mistasia. Check out the novel or the forthcoming web-comics to find them!

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Copyright 2014: Christopher M. Purrett