August 10th, 2010 / 1:21 pm
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Young, Joseph. NAME: a vampire novel (2010)

Joseph Young says, “I began writing NAME, my vampire novel, on July 7, 2010 and completed the first draft on August 7, 2010. It is 20 chapters and 125 pages. I wrote NAME to pay my rent.”

John Dermot Woods is doing the cover art!

Here’s an excerpt:

He stood for just a moment, contemplating the thing that was coming. He didn’t have to do it, didn’t have to come to the girl in the red bikini and call to her. He didn’t have to listen to the voice inside her head, sounding so much like the slosh of the sea, like the spitting of blood in her throat, the inside voice that would tell him her name.

As he approached, her pink toes curled into the wet sand, he trained his mind to hers, narrowing his attention to dive below the surface of her dampened hair, into the twirled sea of her thought. He slipped into her mind like a man dropping into a nighttime wave, soundless and effortless, looking for a pearl tumbled in dark water. He swam there for only a moment, grasping the dark and shining word, Jennifer, before coming to the surface with it: Jennifer.

As he came near her, her arms settled loosely across her bikini top, he called that name. “Jennifer,” he said, waving. “Hello.”

The girl, her red bikini flashing in the dark, her hair tumbled in a curl of waves above her eyes, turned toward him. Her own name in the throat of a strange boy didn’t startle her. She opened, arms falling away from her chest, the now unprotected skin of her belly, her throat.

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23 Comments

  1. Adam Robinson

      I like “the inside voice” when it doesn’t refer to speaking quietly because I’m in church.

      This is awesome. He wrote a novel in a month to pay his rent. I don’t think that happens very often.

  2. Joseph Young

      i wrote that phrase for all the louds in church. thanks arob and cee-higgs.

  3. Pemulis

      Awesome. Boris Vian wrote his pulp masterpiece I Shall Spit on Their Graves in about the same amount of time, also to pay his rent. Totally grabbing this one.

  4. Joseph Young

      oh, cool, thanks. it was pretty exhilerating, if you ever wanted to try. not necessarily the rent part, would hope you wouldn’t have to, but the month part.

  5. Laura Ellen Scott

      I’m buying this. It has commas in it.

  6. Blake Butler

      i’m excited to read this. i love fast written books with linguistic balls.

  7. Adam Robinson

      I like “the inside voice” when it doesn’t refer to speaking quietly because I’m in church.

      This is awesome. He wrote a novel in a month to pay his rent. I don’t think that happens very often.

  8. Joseph Young

      i wrote that phrase for all the louds in church. thanks arob and cee-higgs.

  9. Pemulis

      Awesome. Boris Vian wrote his pulp masterpiece I Shall Spit on Their Graves in about the same amount of time, also to pay his rent. Totally grabbing this one.

  10. Joseph Young

      oh, cool, thanks. it was pretty exhilerating, if you ever wanted to try. not necessarily the rent part, would hope you wouldn’t have to, but the month part.

  11. Laura Ellen Scott

      I’m buying this. It has commas in it.

  12. Blake Butler

      i’m excited to read this. i love fast written books with linguistic balls.

  13. david erlewhinge

      Hmm, the movie “I spit on your grave” was epic. Is it related to the book?

  14. david erlewhinge

      Way to go, JY.

  15. david erlewhinge

      You’ll be the first person I “visit” in DC at AWP, LES.

  16. Laura Ellen Scott

      uh oh.

  17. david erlewhinge

      Your blog post and unreturned e-mail will not go “uncontested.” I am feeling the quotes today.

  18. david erlewhinge

      Hmm, the movie “I spit on your grave” was epic. Is it related to the book?

  19. david erlewhinge

      Way to go, JY.

  20. david erlewhinge

      You’ll be the first person I “visit” in DC at AWP, LES.

  21. Laura Ellen Scott

      uh oh.

  22. david erlewhinge

      Your blog post and unreturned e-mail will not go “uncontested.” I am feeling the quotes today.

  23. Ernest