GENRE: Dark Fantasy

As banelero attacks grow more frequent, Chaska knows someone wealthy will have to act. And she won't leave her fate to the damned deadheads. 

Through her persistence and a bit of help from a childhood friend, not even millennia of prejudice can stop her from joining a small team venturing into the bioluminescent forest where the creature makes its home. They have very little in their favor, but the leader comes from the big city where they have resources to spare.

Planned for readers who love...

• beautiful, deadly environments

• characters battling  discrimination

• a really big, really angry cat 

• life and death stakes 

• several days of grumpy camping

• betrayal, heartbreak, abandonment

• slow-built trust, but maybe not friendship

• a villainous landlord pulling strings 

GENRE: Sci-Fantasy

No one was prepared for the Skyfall. Not even Mirche. Giant black and silver stones rained down, streaming fire and causing massive destruction. And from what Mirche has heard, something alive came out from inside. While he has yet to witness the sky’s monsters, he has seen what their sickness can do. 

When his mentor and greatest ally is quarantined with the sky sickness, he joins a cell of scavengers, raiding the vessels for sky monster magic. If he can sell enough, he can afford the bail on his mentor, but she might be fading fast. 

A last concern: most of the party is illiterate, meaning Mirche, the voiceless monk, must find a different means of communication.

Planned for readers who love...

• differently abled protagonists kicking ass

• classic medieval settings… with a twist

• alien tech slowly adapting to the setting

• learning the new rules with the characters

• partial language barriers (it’s back, bby)

• a medicine quest to save those at home

• big found family / misfit party vibes

• probably some cool laser weapons, idk

GENRE: Dark Fantasy

Kendra learned early that the safest path forward was one of quiet anonymity.

As a distant Descendant of the godlike giants who lord over the ground-dwellers, she enjoys some access to their magic. It's a simple connection to the darklooms, but one that allows her some amount of control over the beasts.

With a power like that, it feels like cowardice to stay hidden in the Untouched Fields.

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When a knight of House Hargrave chases thieves through her hometown, Kendra sees her opportunity to get close to the giant. To learn their weaknesses. To see them fall.

Planned for readers who love...

• characters with conflicting motives

• horrid little shadow monsters

• dual point-of-view

• a quest across the lands

• unintended tag-alongs

• friendship building slowly

• characters in their thirties+

• petty telepathic tyrant giants

GENRE: Low Fantasy

Ridge Gate wasn't a poor city, but it hasn't been wealthy in over a century. Her people, however, have always been stubborn and crafty. When the mines dried up, those tunnels were marketed for another, far graver purpose.

After the recent few decades of progress, Ridge Gate was on the cusp of making a new name for itself, with new facilities and infrastructure to wash away stubborn associations as the cursed graveyard of the island. Until Maistru Gentry disappeared. And that promising facade started to slip. 

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Worse, the catacombs beneath the city hold a secret that will be hard to ignore.

Planned for readers who love...

• large, diverse, multi-POV casts

• shape shifting magic (lightly science-y)

• grand overarching storylines

• complex interpersonal relationships

• a healthy dose of small-scale politics

• low tech settings using remnants of fallen empires

• minimal cliffhangers between books

• stories very dear to the author’s soul 

GENRE: Fantasy Western

Unlike the other story pages, I don’t quite have a quippy teaser for Dean’s Valley. This is currently my most experimental piece. Simple plot, but somewhat high concept execution. Translation: it's gonna be weird. I don’t want to say too much about the unusual delivery style at this time, but I am very excited to work on this soon. 

As for what I can say, the plot will be a “who dunnit” style story with seven primary characters. The setting is planned to take place during the colonization of nomadic lands, so I anticipate hints of “American Western” media. Dean’s Valley will not be an American Western in tone, theme, or plot -- with intentional effort and resources put into avoiding tropes and pitfalls of the genre. This story will lean more fantasy, as much of my work does, and I believe the anticipated delivery method will work with that goal. 

Planned for readers who love...

• unusual storytelling

• deep multi-POV

• ever-changing context

• ... and a lot of mystery because I can't reveal much right now.

This one will be a bit tricky to write, but I’m so excited for the challenge!