The following are short summaries of some of my current writing projects. I have many, many projects beyond these, all neatly filed away and waiting for me to give them the attention they deserve. Projects listed here aren't guaranteed for publication. I'm just working on them. They'll get fun status updates. If the project is big enough, I'll give it its own page. Projects are listed in alphabetical order.
Also, the project names are just names I call those projects. They aren't necessarily series names or book titles. This is especially the case when the overall project encompasses many stories that aren't what I'd consider a series.
Status: Drafting Book Seven (Hiatus)
National Novel Writing Month is always a great time to start a new project. This was my seventh NaNoWriMo and because of years writing multiple novels, this project involved my my tenth through fifteenth novels written for NaNoWriMo. Yes, six novels (and the start of the seventh) vomited out in one month. That's what not having a job does for me. I wrote a smidge more than 425,000 words on a million world goal. The story's not nearly done, but I have made a pledge not to draft any more until I see the revision of at least one novel through to a point of being willing to submit it to an agent. So it waits.
There are many people chosen by prophesy for specific calls, and oft times they are given special gifts to fulfill their calls. The Guide Council is an allied force of mentors, seers, and Chosen Ones who have fulfilled their calls, all following in the ancient tradition that the only one who can do what it is a person is called to do is that one person.
Well, Rowena disagrees. She used to be more of a traditionalist, but when she fought her demon with her mystic sword, all on her own, the demon cut off her arm as she killed it. She would have bled to death if not for the help of a paramedic passing by. He opened her mind to the idea that Chosen Ones aren't alone in the world, and she soon decided to start an Academy, an Alliance of Chosen Ones, all supporting one another in fulfilling their calls.
A one-armed swordswoman for a principal. A golden retriever guarding the body of a handsome young man locked in deep slumber in the basement. A ballerina chosen as an exorcist, and her mildly crazy, socially-awkward vampire boyfriend. A petite high school junior called to be a swordsmith who thinks she clearly isn't cut out for the job. A blessed baby. Demons. Changelings. Trouble. Romance. Adventure.
And, of course, a writer chosen to record it all.
Status: Editing Book One (Active), Drafting Book Three (Hiatus)
This is among my longest-running projects. I've been working on it since early high school, first fully envisioning it probably somewhere around 2000. (You'd think I'd have more to say about it than just this short blurb.) I recently rewrote the entire first book and finally wrote the second book over the course of NaNoWriMo 2009. Since then, I've been going back and forth between editing the first book, revising the third, and generally dancing between other projects.
The Phoenix Girl Chronicles is a series that primarily follows the adventures of Celeste Smith, Bearer of the Phoenix Heart, as she seeks to restore the Phoenix and save the world. But will the Phoenix be enough to stop the forces of the demon Guroil and all his army?
(The reason I say it primarily follows Celeste is that there's one book I consider to be one of the Phoenix Girl Chronicles that isn't about Celeste, but rather the one other Wyldian Phoenix Girl and her adventure on Old Wyld. I don't know if I'd consider certain side stories as part of the Chronicles despite a lack of Celeste or not, at least not yet. Plus the side characters of the Phoenix Girl Chronicles tend to have their own separate stories.)
Status: Editing the first Jeneva book (Hiatus)
This project came from my 2008 JulNoWriMo and NaNoWriMo novels. There were three novels total involved, each the first book of their own independent series, but those three series deal with different parts of the same war against the Bellringers. At first, I imagined this as being a set of three trilogies, but then I realized that there were other stories to be told that were still part of the "Fall of the Bellringer" plotline, stories I didn't want to cut out for the sake of keeping a fun working title.
Dragons. Vampires. Wizards. Mages. World-saving adventure crossing from modern Earth and the fantastical Attinor. That's the Fall of the Bellringer in a teensy nutshell.
Status: Drafting Noah and Livia's Story (Hiatus)
"The Vampire Wars" is what I call a time period in Wyld-Earth's history, roughly during the early '90s. A large group of vampires decide they want to take over the world and enslave all humanity and form a Vampire Court of their own, in opposition to the True Queen. Lines are drawn. Night-dwellers of all sorts side with one side or the other. Natural enemies of vampires find themselves making the tough decision: Fight alongside the True Queen, or risk having the Court win this one. Granted, it's probably not the first vampire war in the history of Wyld's Sister Earth. It's just the one I happen to be writing about.
Noah and Livia's story is one of the ones that comes at the start of the war. Livia, a high school student who thinks herself normal, just might have the right blood to help kickstart the Vampire Wars in favor of the Court. Lucky for her, classmate Noah is a vampire hunter with vampire friends on the Queen's side.