A. B. Keuser

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About A. B. Keuser
I spend a lot of time making stuff up and figuring out fun ways to kill people. It's a little weird, but it's something I love. I write space westerns, space operas, and Steampunk Fairytales. I like to think being an author was the endgame every time I got caught lying to my mother as a child.
It probably wasn't.
It probably wasn't.
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Blog postAlien Slug Suffocation Imagine it for a moment. Cold, gelatinous slime covering over your face. Goop drips down your neck. You hold your breath as long as you can, but… the slug has latched on. The suction is so strong, your skin starts to burn, Then you gasp. But there’s no air between you and the slug. The slime fills your mouth. Fills your lungs. Struggling only brings the black oblivion of3 weeks ago Read more
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Blog postHappy first Wednesday of the month fellow IWSGers, and happy National Novel Writing Month! I’ve done NaNoWriMo several times at this point. I’ve won, I’ve lost, I’ve deleted all of my progress on day 15 and had to HUSTLE to get to 50k before the deadline. As someone who has written ~120k in a February, 50k spread out over 30 days isn’t as daunting of a task for me as it may feel to other1 month ago Read more
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Blog postHand out Books instead of Candy There are a lot of allergies out there anymore so navigating the peanut infested candy bowls of Halloween can be downright scary for some kids and their parents. Make it easy for everyone, hand out books instead!Dress up like your favorite character Emphasis on YOUR character. Make sure it’s someone you’ve created, that way, when anyone asks who you are, you get1 month ago Read more
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Blog postCan you tell me what color your coworkers’ eyes are? How about your cousin Andrew’s? What about Matt, the guy you went to high school with that you had a crush on? Reading a book (that will go unnamed) a while back, I was struck--and not for the first time--by the many ways eyes were described. More so that the description almost always focused on color… and not much else. I went back to my1 month ago Read more
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Blog postIt's finally here, a new book. Feels like ages since I've had one of those. (Over two years. Yikes!) I won’t bore you with all the gritty details of what went on in those two years. Not in this post anyway. Instead, let’s talk about the book! Like almost all of my other books, this one takes place in another galaxy, long after Earth is gone and everyone's stopped talking about it except2 months ago Read more
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Blog post~ A century and a half before I was born, a Kindiran woman warned her race of their coming doom. Her pleas for caution were met with ridicule. She offered hope for salvation, but like all legends, interpretation of truth is often impossible until a foretelling comes to fruition. A two-headed chameleon, born of a false mother…. Those who listened thought her mad. Electricity crackled2 months ago Read more
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Blog postThere are days where writing is a sisyphean task. Days where I wish I could split myself in twelve to get everything I want to get done completed.Days where I wish I could plug a jack into the base on my skull and do a full cerebral dump… sort out the mess when it’s on a computer screen.Days when that biting little voice tries to eat away at my confidence and tries to convince me I couldn’t2 months ago Read more
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Blog postI hate when I hear people say they’re “an aspiring writer.” Because invariably, they’re wrong. They don’t want to be, they already are. If you write, you’re a writer. If you’ve written a book (even just a spotty and fractured first draft), you’re an author. The only way to be an aspiring writer is to never actually try. If you spend all your time thinking about it without ever putting pen to2 months ago Read more
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Blog postI’m just incredibly busy. But I thought I’d throw out an update, just in case you were worried that I’d literally dropped off the face of the Earth. So here’s where we’re at right now: "TBZ" (Due November) In final edits & formatting "413" Short Story (Due December) Second round complete redraft "SBD" (Due January) In final edits & Formatting "GDS" (Due February)2 months ago Read more
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Blog post44,042-words in 19 days (Average: 2,318 words/day) 4 projects* + Admin (2%) The least writing days in a month so far this year, but checking my previous numbers… it’s the exact number of days from last may. (Don’t call it) Comicon always throws the pre-memorial day week straight into the trash. This year was worse, because a work trip had me in (snowy?) Denver at the beginning of the week.6 months ago Read more
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Blog post41,893-words in 25 days(Average: 1,676 words/day)4 projects + Admin (2%)I was quite scattered this past month. I averaged 8,378 per week which isn’t terrible. It just isn’t great. And I did wind up smack dab in the middle of the previous years’ April counts. While I don’t want to make excuses (I’m going to give you one right now), I do think that not having an actual desk at home has been7 months ago Read more
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Blog postWords Written: 65,494 in 24 days (Average: 2,729) 9 Projects + Admin (3%) This month’s word count started out high (the first three weeks I was still playing the full-time-author) and the last two weeks were low (Yay for starting my new day job, though). I think it’s pretty clear when I went back to work. I passed the 200k for the year mark, and those benchmarks are always fun.8 months ago Read more
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Blog postIt’s my Birthday! Well… almost. I’m the sort of person who claims the whole month once it rolls around. Because I can. It’s like a get out of jail free card… within reason. One of the things that always comes up around this time of year is someone asking what I want. And that always makes me do the puppy dog head tilt. Because the answer is always going to be books…. I’m good with buying my9 months ago Read more
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Blog postWords Written: 106,923 in 20 days(Average: 5,346/day6 Projects + Admin (10%) I think it's pretty obvious when I quit my day job. Please note, this was not in relation to the twitter nonsense that went on days after I'd made the decision (and which weirded me out for the week and a half before I handed in my resignation). Getting the word counts in has been easier since I stepped out9 months ago Read more
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Blog postIt’s almost Valentine’s Day and I’m choosing to fall back in love with one of my books that I’ve lost interest in. I’m doing it by tearing it apart and turning it into something else entirely! I still love the concept, but, having put about 60,000-words in it, I’ve come to the conclusion that the reason I haven’t been able to finish it is that I’ve clearly gone down the wrong track. So I’m10 months ago Read more
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Blog postWriting 72,000-words I’ve got my days set up in a long checklist of to-dos. The plan is to get 30K into a cyberpunk style story, 28k into science fantasy that has been slowly consuming my soul for twelve or so years, and then 14k set aside for free writing/admin (brain breaks, blog posts, and jotting down plot bunny notes so I can save them for another day, that sort of thing). Reading 5 books10 months ago Read more
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Blog postWords Written: 34,168 in 23 days (Average: 1,486/day 8 Projects + Admin (11%) I didn’t reach my goal of 57k. Not by a long shot. But I’m not stressing about that. It’s better than four months from last year, and as long as I’ve got an average of 1k/day (of the month, not actual writing days), I’m willing to count that as a win. It’s been a rough start to the year, which invariably impinges on10 months ago Read more
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Blog postI keep pretty detailed spreadsheets for each month because I’m a little neurotic, and I like seeing the progress in an analytical way. I totally get that this doesn’t work for everyone, that it can be frustrating and counterproductive for some. I started back in 2013 when I decided I was going to write 1 million words in a year (or 11 months, as it turned out) and just kept doing it. It holds me11 months ago Read more
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Blog postIf you were here on Wednesday for my IWSG post you’ll have seen that I don’t do resolutions. They don’t work for me, I can’t set a hard and fast plan at the beginning of the year and stick to it. That’s just not how my brain is wired. And I’m 100% okay with it. But I do like goals. I just like them on a smaller scale. Things that can be tweaked and adjusted without any real “shame”. Therefore, I11 months ago Read more
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Blog postIt’s a New Year and I'm sure you’ve heard it a hundred times. “New Year, New Me!” Pretty sure this is going to be another “New Year, Same Me” situation. And I’m okay with that. Do I hope to get more done this year than last? Yes. I always hope to improve, but I also am just happy to do as well as I did last go around. Because sometimes, that’s all you can really ask of yourself. Sometimes you11 months ago Read more
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Blog postWords Written: 29,896 -words in 21 days (AVG 1,424-words/day) 3 projects + Admin (26%) December is the one month of the year where I expect nothing of myself. Which is honestly pretty hard. Being productive and busy were pretty much the requirement while growing up. Down-time wasn’t approved of. So it’s really hard to disconnect. And when I say I don’t expect anything from myself, that11 months ago Read more
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Blog postHappy Holidays fellow IWSG-ers. Whatever you celebrate: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, or anything else I’m forgetting (sorry!), I’m happy we’ve gotten to the point. Not because I’m confident I’ll wrap up everything I’ve got left on my list before we ring in the new year. It’s definitely not because EVERY store is going to be a hellscape for the rest of the month. It’s only partially1 year ago Read more
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Blog postWords Written: 50,287-words in 23 days(AVG 2,186-words/day*)7 projects + Admin (9%) November is all SUPER FOCUSED, and then suddenly, that last week, everything went to hell. My general daily goals weren't really met.... but I hit the 50k, thanks to that messy week. * the image is wrong because I hadn't remembered to change the day's written before I took the screenshot. It's a short1 year ago Read more
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Blog postNaNoWriMo is an awesome challenge and great way to push yourself to get something started, or get something finished… or just get focused. It’s an amazing community and it’s a great way to kick yourself in the pants. As someone who’s done NaNo several times, I am a big proponent of participation. I needed it for focus because… whoa, my brain gets especially flustered around this time of year.1 year ago Read more
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Blog postWords Written: 113,815-words in 26 days (AVG 4,378-words/day) 5 projects + Admin (6%) This month feels like it was three years long. Maybe that’s because I got in as many words as I did? Maybe it’s because I spent it watching horror movies (some of which take a few days off my life every time I watch them)? Maybe it’s because the year is winding down and the weather’s finally getting cold1 year ago Read more
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Books By A. B. Keuser
Iron Heinrich (The Clockwork Fairytales) (Volume 3)
Apr 25, 2016
by
A. B. Keuser
Out of Print--Limited Availability.
Hazel & Gretel (The Clockwork Fairytales) (Volume 2)
Mar 27, 2016
by
A B Keuser
Out of Print--Limited Availability.
Quick and Painless (The Flynn Monroe Series)
Dec 30, 2014
by
A B Keuser
Out of Print--Limited Availability.
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