Current WIPs
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booksabaking12 Months of Villainy + Equilibrium and Professor Balance (link)
In a world build on comic book rules, a hero must do her best to make the world a better place and a villain needs to deal with his assigned role while at the same time make sure the universe doesn't collapse in on itself. Will you believe me if I tell you this mainly is a romance/erotica story?
A Werewolf in October (link)
Jayla has just moved to a new town more or less on impulse (and definitely not to prove something to anyone else, nope, no siree!) While out job hunting she gets bitten by a werewolf and, naturally, this brings further life changes. Will dealing with hunters, mystical artifacts, witches, vampires, shapeshifters and fellow werewolves be worth immortality and getting to join a D&D group that actually has regularly scheduled meetings?
All the Changed (link) + (link)
This is an old project that I just can't seem to let go of. It currently consists of three very different stories linked together by [HUGE SPOILER]:
1) A loyal man, the story of alien creatures trying to find their place in a modern-Earth-like-society while torn by a small-scale civil war. One third of the aliens wants to blend in on this planet and forget why they ended up there, the second third wants to take over the place, and the final third wants to stop the take-over and fix what's gone wrong, hopeless as that might seem.
2) Blood of Your Blood, which takes place in the same universe as my Of Elves and Dwarroves series, making it a steampunk-y fantasy. This book follows a family of dragons for three generations as they try to reestablish the civilization of their splintered species and discover an uncomfortable truth.
3) Portal Guards, the story of Anouk, a former palace cook who accidentally stumbles upon an eerie creature set to guard a cave in the middle of nowhere. The creature turns out to be a good friend to have when your country is under siege.
Fantasy Road Trip
Smol Human gets exiled from her isolated city state and thrown to the mercy of the wild lands outside it. She runs into Tall Floof who wants to be her friend. Together they gather more friends and travel the wonderful and strange lands of the world they live in. This is basically purely an excuse to write fluff and try to describe epic landscapes. There will eventually be a plot of some sort, but I'm mostly aiming for sweet Found Family feels and that sense of "ooooh" you get when you're looking at really beautiful fantasy landscape art (we'll see how well I do on that part, being a very bad at visualizing stuff and all).
Heist Fantasy
Sooo...for anyone who's seen the show Leverage, this is basically Leverage except in a steampunk/solarpunk setting with a close to all-female cast (all female except for one non-binary amab group member). Here magic is like language in that you learn it easier when you're young, it can be tricky to know many different ones fluently and it's possible to have learning disabilities regarding magic. Our main character is an excellent con artist and grifter, but is unable to learn magic. Follow her and her BFFs and love interest(s) as they rob the rich blind!
History Research
Kinda going for a creepy weird fiction vibe with this one. Co-writing with a friend. The plot is vague on purpose and thus hard to summarize. Let's just say the world the story is set in is messed up by magic and the main character has sacrificed his sight to be able to view history. His design was definitely inspired by a Dark Souls boss.
Of Elves and Dwarrows (link)
A trilogy, because of course all fantasy loving writers need to churn out a trilogy eventually ;)
The setting is a steampunk-ish crossed with solarpunk-ish fantasy world where you've got the 'classic' fantasy creatures such as dragons, elves, humans, orcs, dwarrows, etc. Our main main character is a young dwarrow named Jale who has two wishes in life: to become a bard and to marry the youngest prince of the mountain queendom he lives in. Both of these wishes seem to be within his reach until he unknowingly comes across an elf. As all 'know' elves eat souls...
Secrets in Ice
Story project with my sister, with me writing and her illustrating. Two sister travel north to catch up with the foreign military that kidnapped their brother. On the way they meet interesting people and realize the kidnapping is linked to a war and a their people's own history.
Solarpunk Not-Pirates
Still polishing the plot for this one, but I've got the main cast down! We've got a skyship captain, her first mate, a nobleman on the run who's overdosed on magic, and a young man who's accidentally been kidnapped and isn't too unhappy about it. They will eventually be an OT4, because this is my story and I can do whatever I wish with it, ahahahaha!
Space School
This story 100% stems from my personal frustration at all the in-some-way school related media where I'm way more interested in the life of the teachers than in the students. Like, no hate for the student characters in those shows, I just want to know more about the teachers. So this will be a scifi sort of slice-of-life combined with action combined with romance story about a group of teachers desperate to hold together the first interspecies school - which, for legal reasons, is mobile and located in neutral space - after years of terrible war. Our two main teachers are a Very Human Really guy who's sunshine personified and a less sunshine-y former black ops human who now does his best to teach home economics and math to a very mismatched group of students.
Those With Magic
This is an old project which has been inspired by a lot of fight heavy anime I liked as a kid - aka Bleach, Naruto, etc. Basically, we follow three characters who for different reasons join a inter-dimensional inter-stellar peacekeeping force and gain mentors. All three are adults, but they are new to the organization and have been assigned mentors, which leaves them with less agency than before they joined - will vengeance, honor or redemption be worth that?
Travel to Other Shores
Sequel to "How to sway them". Here we follow some of the characters from the first book as they literally travel to other shores and seek out new and old civilizations. What is the world like outside of The Empire? Will Aelius and Nikon's journey go well? Will Rhian's flight away from the fallen Empire come back to haunt her? What is going on on the other side of the world, really?
Witches and Fae (link)
A gathering of short stories that share characters and happen in chronological order, but I plan to have be "contained stories". We'll see how well that goes. The setting is a fantasy take on "18th century society meets faeries" just because it's fun. We have humans kidnapped by fae and fae raised humans kidnapped by humans, we've got love stories and we've got politics. It's all in good fun.
In a world build on comic book rules, a hero must do her best to make the world a better place and a villain needs to deal with his assigned role while at the same time make sure the universe doesn't collapse in on itself. Will you believe me if I tell you this mainly is a romance/erotica story?
A Werewolf in October (link)
Jayla has just moved to a new town more or less on impulse (and definitely not to prove something to anyone else, nope, no siree!) While out job hunting she gets bitten by a werewolf and, naturally, this brings further life changes. Will dealing with hunters, mystical artifacts, witches, vampires, shapeshifters and fellow werewolves be worth immortality and getting to join a D&D group that actually has regularly scheduled meetings?
All the Changed (link) + (link)
This is an old project that I just can't seem to let go of. It currently consists of three very different stories linked together by [HUGE SPOILER]:
1) A loyal man, the story of alien creatures trying to find their place in a modern-Earth-like-society while torn by a small-scale civil war. One third of the aliens wants to blend in on this planet and forget why they ended up there, the second third wants to take over the place, and the final third wants to stop the take-over and fix what's gone wrong, hopeless as that might seem.
2) Blood of Your Blood, which takes place in the same universe as my Of Elves and Dwarroves series, making it a steampunk-y fantasy. This book follows a family of dragons for three generations as they try to reestablish the civilization of their splintered species and discover an uncomfortable truth.
3) Portal Guards, the story of Anouk, a former palace cook who accidentally stumbles upon an eerie creature set to guard a cave in the middle of nowhere. The creature turns out to be a good friend to have when your country is under siege.
Fantasy Road Trip
Smol Human gets exiled from her isolated city state and thrown to the mercy of the wild lands outside it. She runs into Tall Floof who wants to be her friend. Together they gather more friends and travel the wonderful and strange lands of the world they live in. This is basically purely an excuse to write fluff and try to describe epic landscapes. There will eventually be a plot of some sort, but I'm mostly aiming for sweet Found Family feels and that sense of "ooooh" you get when you're looking at really beautiful fantasy landscape art (we'll see how well I do on that part, being a very bad at visualizing stuff and all).
Heist Fantasy
Sooo...for anyone who's seen the show Leverage, this is basically Leverage except in a steampunk/solarpunk setting with a close to all-female cast (all female except for one non-binary amab group member). Here magic is like language in that you learn it easier when you're young, it can be tricky to know many different ones fluently and it's possible to have learning disabilities regarding magic. Our main character is an excellent con artist and grifter, but is unable to learn magic. Follow her and her BFFs and love interest(s) as they rob the rich blind!
History Research
Kinda going for a creepy weird fiction vibe with this one. Co-writing with a friend. The plot is vague on purpose and thus hard to summarize. Let's just say the world the story is set in is messed up by magic and the main character has sacrificed his sight to be able to view history. His design was definitely inspired by a Dark Souls boss.
Of Elves and Dwarrows (link)
A trilogy, because of course all fantasy loving writers need to churn out a trilogy eventually ;)
The setting is a steampunk-ish crossed with solarpunk-ish fantasy world where you've got the 'classic' fantasy creatures such as dragons, elves, humans, orcs, dwarrows, etc. Our main main character is a young dwarrow named Jale who has two wishes in life: to become a bard and to marry the youngest prince of the mountain queendom he lives in. Both of these wishes seem to be within his reach until he unknowingly comes across an elf. As all 'know' elves eat souls...
Secrets in Ice
Story project with my sister, with me writing and her illustrating. Two sister travel north to catch up with the foreign military that kidnapped their brother. On the way they meet interesting people and realize the kidnapping is linked to a war and a their people's own history.
Solarpunk Not-Pirates
Still polishing the plot for this one, but I've got the main cast down! We've got a skyship captain, her first mate, a nobleman on the run who's overdosed on magic, and a young man who's accidentally been kidnapped and isn't too unhappy about it. They will eventually be an OT4, because this is my story and I can do whatever I wish with it, ahahahaha!
Space School
This story 100% stems from my personal frustration at all the in-some-way school related media where I'm way more interested in the life of the teachers than in the students. Like, no hate for the student characters in those shows, I just want to know more about the teachers. So this will be a scifi sort of slice-of-life combined with action combined with romance story about a group of teachers desperate to hold together the first interspecies school - which, for legal reasons, is mobile and located in neutral space - after years of terrible war. Our two main teachers are a Very Human Really guy who's sunshine personified and a less sunshine-y former black ops human who now does his best to teach home economics and math to a very mismatched group of students.
Those With Magic
This is an old project which has been inspired by a lot of fight heavy anime I liked as a kid - aka Bleach, Naruto, etc. Basically, we follow three characters who for different reasons join a inter-dimensional inter-stellar peacekeeping force and gain mentors. All three are adults, but they are new to the organization and have been assigned mentors, which leaves them with less agency than before they joined - will vengeance, honor or redemption be worth that?
Travel to Other Shores
Sequel to "How to sway them". Here we follow some of the characters from the first book as they literally travel to other shores and seek out new and old civilizations. What is the world like outside of The Empire? Will Aelius and Nikon's journey go well? Will Rhian's flight away from the fallen Empire come back to haunt her? What is going on on the other side of the world, really?
Witches and Fae (link)
A gathering of short stories that share characters and happen in chronological order, but I plan to have be "contained stories". We'll see how well that goes. The setting is a fantasy take on "18th century society meets faeries" just because it's fun. We have humans kidnapped by fae and fae raised humans kidnapped by humans, we've got love stories and we've got politics. It's all in good fun.
