The Shepherd of Dreams lives in dreams and can manipulate them. The truth is she uses the dream world to hide from her past and present nightmares. In real life, she does not speak, and she can only voice words with her mind, in dreams and out. Lazarus is a spirit seeker, one who makes sure restless souls move on from the world of the living, and he is a drunkard and womanizer - he is running from his own life, as much as the Shepherd, just in a different fashion. It just so happens, he's the first dreamer that sees the Shepherd. Both characters are pressed with dangers to the dream world and the real world, and together they have to discover and resolve the source of the trouble.
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Step in Process: Rough Draft
Current Word Count: 25,250
♦ Daina's Dance (working title)
Daina is half Denar and half something else. She's too weak to join the Dance and wants to know who her father was. Her only friend follows her on her premature journey, and her worried aunt pursues. I also have two short stories related to this novel, one is the same name as this working title, and the other is "The Awakening," which shows the conception of Daina.
Genre: Dark Fantasy (might be Young Adult)
Step in Process: Rough Draft
Current Word Count: 23,500
The Rough Draft of this is on hold - I still love the idea, it just needs some time before I am not upset with some of the critiques I have received and can process those comments with a clear head (or plow on to the end of the rough draft without having the comments in the back of my mind, and not revisiting the comments until the first revision).
I started this during NaNoWriMo 2005, and picked it up again right before and during NaNoWriMo 2006. I'm hoping to plod on to complete the rough draft by the end of February 2007.
♦ The Mind Behind the Mind 2
This is the second novel in a trilogy. Tessa and Bastian finally know who they're up against. At least they think so, but things are not always what they seem. They need to go down two different paths though. How will they handle their seperation from each other and past actions that still haunt them? Who knows (really, I'm not sure yet).
Genre: Dark Romantic Fantasy
Step in Process: Rough Draft
This was my NaNoWriMo 2004 project. I admit it, I failed NaNo, but at least I wrote the beginning of this novel, which gave me fresh insight for the first novel in the trilogy.
The first short story in my Fate series. I intend to write a story that relates to each Tarot card, some stories taking place in the world of Fate and some crossing into our own world. In this story, Tilly is a twelve-year-old girl who throws caution to the wind and has no heed of consequences. But she hides another side, which Mia, one of the three cat sisters found in all the Fate stories, discovers.
Step in Process: First Revision
Word Count: 5,000
♦ "Love Fades"
This is the Two of Cups story in my Fate series. Caradeci accidentally slipped between dimensions from Fate to Earth a decade ago, falling in love with someone from Earth. The balance insists she's stayed on Earth too long, and she is slowly fading away. Her and her lover, Alex, seek a way to prevent it or find a way back to Fate.
Step in Process: Rough Draft
♦ Blood and Souls (working title)
This is more of a novelette/novella in progress. Two religious factions have warred with each other for centuries. One goddess thirsts for the blood of her enemies, while the other wishes to capture souls - both tactics are to build power for their forces. Deyrdre is a Vessel of Souls, destined to carry the souls of the dead with her until she dies, to be used as a weapon. Maeve is a warrior for the other side. What will happen to these two women? Really, that question isn't rhetorical - I'm not actually sure what's going to happeen yet.
Step in Process: Rough Draft
♦ "Hell Hath No Fury"
Moira just died, and she has the unlucky job of being the greeter for the 2nd floor of hell, tacky devil costume and all. To top things off her ex-boyfriend is spending the rest of eternity on the same floor as Moira. She thinks it couldn't get worse, until a rapist decides she's going to be his first target in hell.
Step in Process: First Revision
Word Count: 12,000