This story has a strange history.
And I don’t just mean because
there are a bunch of odd names and bizarrely evil masterminds in it.
No, it all started a long time
ago. In our galaxy—it is not a Sci-Fi story. My friend (the awesome and creative
“K”) actually created the world of the Super Secret Agency at least fifteen
years ago.
One year for Nanowrimo I decided
I wanted to play too, so I got permission to enter, tossed some new characters
and silly situations together and had more fun than I’d ever had writing 65,000
words. I didn’t want to stop!
At this point (maybe five years
ago now) I decided that I wanted to get a little more serious about writing.
Because I’d had so much fun with the world of SSA, I figured that it would be a
great place to start.
One caution I’ve heard over and
over in the writing world is that you probably shouldn’t start with your “baby”—the
story that you’ve been dying to write ever since you had a dream about it when
you were six years old.
No, start with something you don’t
care about, because you’re going to suck as an author for a while, and
sometimes it breaks people to have their “baby” suck too.
It can all be fixed, I promise.
But it takes time.
Anyway, I fixated on my SSA story
because it is supposed to be funny, cheesy and more than slightly ridiculous. I
figured I could do that.
So I did research. I plotted each
set of agents, their timelines, their destinations, how long it takes to drive
through Texas and about a hundred other things. I re-vamped it, re-wrote it and
declared it finished the next spring.
Over the next two years, I vowed
to write a YA fantasy novel that I would get published. I did that. Well, I
wrote it, then tried to get it published. That didn’t go very well for a while.
A friend of mine (the slightly insane
“T”) had a friend of hers get involved with BigWorldNetwork.com. They were
brand new, and publishing stories on the web serial style (one episode at a
time per week, like a TV series). “T” asked if I wanted to write a series with
her. I declined, because she writes romancy stuff and has a totally different
voice than I do when I write. So she wrote her own and I decided (because “T”
pressured me) to send them a different SSA story. One I’d just written the
November before.
I figured that
BigWorldNetwork.com would politely decline it. After all, the point of the
Super Secret Agency is to make people laugh.
To my shock and surprise, they accepted. Said they loved it and would like as much as I would give them.
So I signed up for five seasons,
plotted it out (loosely) and went to Chicktopia.
Special thanks have to go "K" for allowing me to romp in her world, and to
R&R for coming up with the name “Babes in Spyland.” I think I still owe
them dinner.
That’s a brief blah, blah of the
history of Babes in Spyland. All five seasons are now available in paperback
and e-book from Amazon.
Seriously, if you need a laugh,
check it out. It’s supposed to be cheesy nachos with more cheese on the side.
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