M.J. Whitehead

I’m starting work on a serial fiction project that I will be posting for free through my website. It’s a superhero urban fantasy, and you’ll be able to find out a bit more when I push the redesign of the main mjwhitehead.com site through.

It might be a month or two before I’m ready to start launching, and from there I’ll probably sit back and see how I keep up with the project so that I can have a schedule ready before I start promoting it. I’ll post both on a seperate blog and as a podcast, once I’ve sorted out what I’m doing there.

The three main characters thus far are known as “Insight”, “Shorty”, and “Arsonist”. Those are their super-identities, of course. You’ll have to sit tight to see what they’re called when they’re hobnobbing with their business associates at Wayne Enterprises*, or slogging through journalistic obscurity at the Daily Planet*.

I’m also saving myself research and setting the serial in my current hometown of Wellington, New Zealand. Everyone who’s always wanted a story covering southern hemisphere superheroes, your prayers have been answered!

*These locations will not actually be in the story, sorry. Underpowered will be a completely original work of fiction, although as it’s set in the near future, the characters will certainly know of Batman and Superman and perhaps even other superheroes. I have definite plans to work in a character who either read a lot of comics or watched a lot of superhero series, so there should be some meta-humour for those that want it.