What’s Coming Next?

A New Kind of Sunrise

On the world of Isuna even summer is cold, seasons last 300 years, and only the swift-moving twilight region is comfortably habitable.

Mikaena is a member of a twilight caravan, a nomadic family group which follows rigid customs to ensure survival in a precarious environment. When she rescues a wounded foreigner, Mikaena discovers that she must stand against clan law, and against her own father’s wishes, if they are to survive the onset of winter.

But violating tradition, it turns out, is not enough. Dreadful storms accompany the climate changes, rampant plague spreads through the caravans, and Mikaena soon finds herself on a perilous journey to seek technological aid from the foreigner she saved and the ancient order to which he belongs; an order which is willing to slay Mikaena, her people, and most of the world’s populace in order to ensure its own survival.

Status: Final Drafting
Next Steps: Revision, Seek Representation

Daughter of Demons (working title)

The kingdom of Helsiod stands at the brink of disaster. Foreign armies camp at its borders, willing to trample Helsiod’s populace in a brutal three-way quarrel. And if Helsiod falls, the Gates to the DemonWorld will be left undefended.

Desperate to aid her people, and fully aware that Helsiod does not have the resources to stave off the coming onslaught, young Danika seeks safety in the practice of forbidden magic — and in a dangerous bargain with the Demon Lords her royal house has sworn to imprison.

Status: Preliminary Drafting
Next Steps: Write write write!

Untitled Short Story Commission

In the not-too-distant future, public education has fractured. Schools as we know them no longer exist. Instead, each child is assigned a virtual mentor — a composite entity manufactured from interactions with hundreds of different specialists and filtered through an advanced AI program. Each student has hundreds of teachers; each teacher has thousands of students; and yet they experience the interactions as if they were speaking with each other one-on-one.

In this world, something is going to go wrong, something is going to go right, and someone is going to pay for it.

Status: Brainstorming
Next Steps: Outline