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: Editing (Hiatus-ish)
A short story set on Attinor. I feel constant guilt for neglecting it when it's one of my favorite short stories that I've written thus far. It was written as an assignment for a 2008 Creative Writing class, and it was my second exploration of Attinor.
Status: 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 around 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. I'm tossed between editing the first and second books and pushing forward with the story. While decisions percolate, I've set it aside to focus on stories I have made decisions about already.
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.)
Status: Editing the first Jeneva book (Active)
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.