Completed Fiction

I’ve written an average of about 450 words of fiction a day since I was laid off, but that number is misleading: some of those words have been rewritten several times. The more meaningful number is 28 rejections from agents and 25 from publishers in that same period.

And before anyone asks, no, I haven’t used AI to write any of this. Most of these projects are years old—I’m just taking advantage of my unexpected idleness to revise or rewrite them.

• Beneath Coriandel (adult fantasy novel): A young man descends into the crypts beneath the city to slay a monster, a woman plots to steal her niece’s youth, a talking horse foils a robbery, and a magician wonders why she can’t get a particular nursery rhyme out of her head.
• Iffy (YA science fiction novel): Two hundred years from now, in a melting Antarctica, an orphaned clone named Iffy is haunted by the blueprints for strange machines that appear unbidden in her mind.
• The Bookster’s Apprentice (YA fantasy novel): A bookish girl who lives on a flying mountain finds her home and her life thrown off course, and must come to terms with her people’s history, and possibly with the end of the world as she knows it.
• The Cloudherd and the Tiger’s Boy (YA fantasy novel): After rescuing some rebel soldiers from an angry forest, a young cloudherd must decide whose side she’s on.
• Madica (YA novella): A fairy and a ninja cat try to save the world from a giant robot dinosaur. Trust me, it makes sense when you read it…
• All the Other Santas (YA novella): A young santa who secretly wants to be an elf travels the multiverse in search of answers.
• Still (YA novella): A young puppet tries to make a life for herself on the street.
• The Makers and Bots trilogy (middle-grade SF novellas):
  • Maddy Roo: When a young kangaroo’s sister is kidnapped, she teams up with a battered robot to rescue her.
  • In Heck: Maddy and her friend Gumption risk everything to venture into the bot city of Heck.
  • The Makers Return: When the Makers return from their centuries-long exile, can they find a way to live peacefully with those they left behind?
• The Eimin trilogy (YA fantasy novellas, in progress):
  • Eimin in Medef: Having grown up unable to sense the feelings of others the way “normal” people can, Eimin must decide what kind of person he wants to become.
  • Eimin in Ossisswe: Eimin travels to the city of Ossisswe in search of a stolen magical amulet.