Unfinished except in my heart (mostly)
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pjthompsonThat novel meme.
I'm just going to list the ones I've actually done some work on (as opposed to being a collection of "things" in an idea folder).
933 Cherokee Street - Actually, interesting characters and quite a good idea, despite all the kinky sex magic. I may have to finish this one some day if I can come up with sufficient plot to go with the trappings.
Brother Wolf, formerly A Taste of Night before Vicki Petersson, and also briefly Rough Magic - I was about 70k into this one before it went belly up. Nearly broke my heart. The plot got way stupid, even for me, spies and memory experiments and omg. But I loved the two main characters. I hope I learn how to fix it some day. I tried briefly to turn it into a werewolf novel, but omg even stupider.
Beneath a Hollow Moon - The long-awaited JK Montmorency/Dos Lunas novel. Okay, so maybe nobody's waiting for it except me. I have a frame to hang the story on, good characters, a number of preparatory short stories, but it's just not coming together.
Blood Boogie - Sequel to Blood Geek, my much unsold first vampire book. I don't think this one's going to go any place, though the opening scene was pretty cool. I might have to steal it for another project.
Burn - I've got an interesting premise, a good MC, interesting worldbuilding, a good beginning and end. It lacks a middle (a big chunk of middle), and I wonder if there's even enough story there for a full novel. It may turn out to be a novella in disguise.
Midnight Ragas - The third book in the vampire trilogy I didn't realize was a vampire trilogy until I'd written a 170k first draft trying to cram all three stories into one. (Night Warrior/The Making Blood is book one and one-third of this trilogy, for which I have shaved off the one-third and dumped it into this story.) I have no idea if I'll get back to this as I've totally gone off vampires.
A Little Bag of Dreams - An early attempt at urban fantasy with a heroine, but, alas, not a kickass heroine, and with way too much metaphor. I was thinking about parts of this just the other day, so maybe it isn't completely moribund. Part comedy, part serious stuff, part pretentious and too self-aware stuff. It would have to be seriously altered.
Red Demon - I really like this one. It's been one of my "maybe I'll work on that next" books for awhile. I might be able to cannibalize parts of A Little Bag of Dreams for this one.
The Ice Wizard - Dude does high fantasy. An early effort and probably best forgotten, but you never know. I would hate to waste all the effort I put into those damned maps. ;-)
The Simon Jellicoe Novel - A sequel or broadening out of my novella, "Sealed With A Curse" about an 18th c. cunning man's adventures across the 8th dimension...and beyond! This is another one I've really wanted to get to.
Venus In Transit - Currently pushing forward on this. A contemporary mostly comedic fantasy set in Dos Lunas County. I started this one back in 2000 and got well into it before it fell apart in my hands. But I finally figured out how to fix it and so far it's going really well and I'm enjoying all-heck out of it. Which is why I say no novel is ever completely dead because you just never know. I've finished some that have stayed moribund for years.
I'm just going to list the ones I've actually done some work on (as opposed to being a collection of "things" in an idea folder).
933 Cherokee Street - Actually, interesting characters and quite a good idea, despite all the kinky sex magic. I may have to finish this one some day if I can come up with sufficient plot to go with the trappings.
Brother Wolf, formerly A Taste of Night before Vicki Petersson, and also briefly Rough Magic - I was about 70k into this one before it went belly up. Nearly broke my heart. The plot got way stupid, even for me, spies and memory experiments and omg. But I loved the two main characters. I hope I learn how to fix it some day. I tried briefly to turn it into a werewolf novel, but omg even stupider.
Beneath a Hollow Moon - The long-awaited JK Montmorency/Dos Lunas novel. Okay, so maybe nobody's waiting for it except me. I have a frame to hang the story on, good characters, a number of preparatory short stories, but it's just not coming together.
Blood Boogie - Sequel to Blood Geek, my much unsold first vampire book. I don't think this one's going to go any place, though the opening scene was pretty cool. I might have to steal it for another project.
Burn - I've got an interesting premise, a good MC, interesting worldbuilding, a good beginning and end. It lacks a middle (a big chunk of middle), and I wonder if there's even enough story there for a full novel. It may turn out to be a novella in disguise.
Midnight Ragas - The third book in the vampire trilogy I didn't realize was a vampire trilogy until I'd written a 170k first draft trying to cram all three stories into one. (Night Warrior/The Making Blood is book one and one-third of this trilogy, for which I have shaved off the one-third and dumped it into this story.) I have no idea if I'll get back to this as I've totally gone off vampires.
A Little Bag of Dreams - An early attempt at urban fantasy with a heroine, but, alas, not a kickass heroine, and with way too much metaphor. I was thinking about parts of this just the other day, so maybe it isn't completely moribund. Part comedy, part serious stuff, part pretentious and too self-aware stuff. It would have to be seriously altered.
Red Demon - I really like this one. It's been one of my "maybe I'll work on that next" books for awhile. I might be able to cannibalize parts of A Little Bag of Dreams for this one.
The Ice Wizard - Dude does high fantasy. An early effort and probably best forgotten, but you never know. I would hate to waste all the effort I put into those damned maps. ;-)
The Simon Jellicoe Novel - A sequel or broadening out of my novella, "Sealed With A Curse" about an 18th c. cunning man's adventures across the 8th dimension...and beyond! This is another one I've really wanted to get to.
Venus In Transit - Currently pushing forward on this. A contemporary mostly comedic fantasy set in Dos Lunas County. I started this one back in 2000 and got well into it before it fell apart in my hands. But I finally figured out how to fix it and so far it's going really well and I'm enjoying all-heck out of it. Which is why I say no novel is ever completely dead because you just never know. I've finished some that have stayed moribund for years.
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