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Like many authors, I’m blessed (cursed?) with far more story ideas than I have time to write.
Maybe someday I’ll be able to disappear for a year (or three…or thirty…) to carve out enough time to write them all. Until then, I’ve shared a little bit about some of my un-written book and series ideas here while I chip away at the ever-growing list. Cast your vote for the concepts you’d like to see first!
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
The Psychic Twins One
The first piece of my writing I ever liked enough to share was a novella I wrote in college about two hyper-intelligence kids with the ability to see the future just well enough to try to save the world from a cataclysm they barely understood.
The story expanded from there to include other children around the world with similarly strange gifts, each of them connected by events they only understood in part, and each one hunted by a mysterious organization with a deadly agenda.
This story will always hold a special appeal to me. I can’t wait to see what I can do with it based on everything I’ve learned since I first wrote it.
Genre: Galactic Gothic
The Vampires In Space One
What if the first humans on Mars were infected by the same virus that gave rise to the vampire myth on earth? What if they returned as immortal conquerers to usher in a new era of peace under their rule?
Thousands of years in the future, the youngest scion of an elder vampire bloodline is forced on the run to save a friend. On the fringes of space, he discovers that the world is far darker than he’d been raised to believe, and will have to decide how far he’s willing to go to put things right.
I envision this world with a sort of Firefly meets Blade Runner vibe, and as my first foray into sci-fi, I’m excited to tackle it someday.
Genre: Noir Urban Fantasy
The 1930s Magical Underworld Detective One
One of my bigger projects for my master’s degree at Oxford was a radio drama script about a cynical Irish detective in prohibition-era Chicago who is drawn into the city’s magical underworld when his daughter is kidnapped.
Joining forces with a man who claims to be both his grandfather and a leprechaun but looks like neither one, Jack Kelly must face his demons to save what’s left of his family and his faith.
I planned this as the beginning of a series where Jack and his daughter are hired to solve crimes too strange for normal law enforcement.
Genre: Cyberpunk Jules-Verne
The Underwater Sci-fi One
The world we know ends when eco-terrorists hack the world’s weather control satellite network, accidentally unleashing aquatic Armageddon in the process as the entire world is submerged beneath the raging oceans.
Thankfully, humanity had already begun to colonize the ocean floor before the surface world was destroyed. Now submarines, domed cities, and the struggle for survival in the murky depths are all that’s left of civilization. Then a weary explorer and a rogue AI discover a secret that could change the world all over again.
Genre: Historical Fiction
The Spanish Game Of Thrones One
My undergraduate degree focused on early medieval Europe, and in the process of researching my thesis project, I discovered the rich and wild history of the royal family that established the land that would become Spain over three generations of ambition, passion, bloodshed, faith, and intrigue. I honestly can’t believe their story hasn’t been told before, but I hope to bring them to life someday.