Projects

Thawing of the Snow

Genre: Dark Fantasy

Creation: Set in Sufushia. I got this idea from a dream in about 2005.

Status:
- Wrote basic idea
- Ditched story due to lack of ability
- Resumed story 2007
- Writing story
- Story is getting long... novelette size.
- Completed it after trip back from Asia.
- Up for final swipe before submission.

Hook: Kajidia can predict wind funnels, however after being too late in predicting one, her friend Qyen gets injured which forces the pair to go to the Southerners for help.

Gods, Devils, Birds

Genre: Dark Fantasy/Horror

Creation: Based in Sufushia. Started this story 2006, left it alone and wrote it on and off in 2007.

Status:
- Written
- Edited
- Submitted
- Rejected
- Getting Peer Feedback
- Critical problems found.
- Taken off of Queue.

Hook: A thief that steals a phoenix egg--a god to the local people-- and eats it to gain magical powers.

Emily Wants a Pet Duck

Genre: Children's Picture Book

Creation: I got this idea from a dream in about 2003. I didn't start submitting it until 2007.

Status:
- Finished Writing.
- Preliminary edits and organization is done.
- Got feedback.
- Submitted once. Rejected.

Hook: Seven-year-old Emily who wants a pet duck despite her parent's objections.

Conjuring the Perfect Man

Genre: Fairytale Fantasy (Sword and Sorcery)

Creation: I adapted it from one of my older stories.

Status:
- Written
- Edited
- Feedback Given
- Re-edited
- Received 8 rejections for the story so far.
- Ran out of places to submit it except for international markets.
- Not sure what to do with the story.

Hook: An imperfect witch named, Matilda, who is trying to conjure the perfect man, but her surly cat knocks in ingredients that don't belong with interesting results.

Love, No Strings Attached

Genre: Chic Lit/Romance

Creation: I did it for a Nanowrimo 2007 novel.

Status:
- Finished Writing.
- Preliminary edits and organization is done.
- Getting feedback.

Hook:
Elisabeth is Sick of Love!

Elisabeth’s plan was simple. Step One: Marry her best friend, William. Step Two: Reap all the legal benefits of marriage. Step Three: never deal with love again.

However, life never goes as planned. William slowly falls in love with her. Now the unpleasant past is resurfacing.

Why is life never simple?

Magic Akademi Wars

Genre: High Fantasy

Creation: I've been playing with this world for a while. I scrapped the first draft completely and restarted in 2008. There will be 3 books.

Status: Writing first Book. I have gotten to Chapter 3.

Hook:

Book 1
Life Must have Meaning.

Anthra Varan is too skinny. She can only use three kinds of magic, one of which she refuses to use. She's a failure as a mage, especially since she's born to a High family.

Despite this the Varan Estate tapestry showed Anthra preventing a war. A war between the disciplines of magic. Because a new kind of magic has arrived—a kind of magic the sucks the life potential out of a person's soul. But what power could Anthra have that no one else does?

Book 2
A New Shadow has Arrived.

The shadow started as a nightmare dream for Anthra. Then the magic plague came. And then black creatures filled the night skies. A beast of two minds which screamed in the night and ate innocents. The war has a new foe.

Magic Solutions, Inc.

Genre: A blend of all kind of speculative Fiction elements with crass humor and satire. (It has High Fantasy, Hard Sci-fi, Soft scifi, Low fantasy, horror, fairytale elements, b-movie elements)

Creation: Create in 1999 from a dream I had. Dropped in 2000, because I realized I didn't have the ability to write it. Resumed 2006.

Status:
- Finished first part.
- Editing the first Part.
- Cut a bunch of chapters in First Part.
- Second Part is acting like its own book. (I won't judge until its all done.)
- Writing Second Part.

Website: http://www.magicsolutionsinc.com