I’m not published (yet), but here are some of the manuscripts and other fiction I’ve written (or am in the process of writing), to give you some idea as to what to expect of me!
The Summer Treaty
A queer romance in an ethereal fantasy realm highlighting the magic of curiosity and creativity, retelling the story of Cupid & Psyche for lovers of soft sunlit days and faery stories.
There’s a liar who calls herself Flora who has never fit in her winter-locked town at the edge of the faery woods. She finds an escape when she signs a treaty with the faery queen of Summer: in exchange for the queen turning the seasons for the town, Flora will enter the Year of faeryland and wed the Summer Prince. But when she arrives at the House, there is no sign of her betrothed—only a curse she has to break if she ever wants to become something more than her farmgirl self…
Word count: 80,500. Genre: Fantasy. Status: Querying.
Tags: mutual pining, bi main character, nonbinary love interest, there’s only one bed, longing, very mild body horror, ambitious women, bad moms, faery deals, love letters, did I mention the pining?
How the Light Gets Out
An unexpected NaNoWriMo project I fell in love with, this manuscript is an ode to my love of Narnia–with some twists..
Verity Rutherford has been back in Oxford for five years, but her heart remains in Eldenweald, the magical realm behind a crack in the wall at her best friend’s mansion. She hasn’t been able to sleep since coming home. Victoria Rutherford doesn’t seem to have this problem, which doesn’t seem fair to Verity. Tor has her fair share of nightmares, but she doesn’t seem to remember them in the mornings. She’s moved on, leaving her little sister—and her anxiety—behind in the realm she’s trying to forget exists.
A twining story that moves between the sisters, their time in Eldenweald, and their return to Oxford, How the Light Gets Out explores anxiety, depression, and sisterhood, and confronts the reality of magic.
Word count: 40,000, currently. Genre: Fantasy. Status: not-quite-done Drafting.
Tags: portal fantasy, sister troubles, talking animals, anxiety and how not to deal with it, depression and how to try to deal with it, childhood friends to lovers, coming home
The Last Seven Deaths
A series of epic fantasy novellas chronicling one weary prophet’s quest to prepare a Sword to kill a god before the Unknown Kin can remake the world by destroying it.
Eks has known since she picked up the Sword of Morsmenti at the age of four that she was destined to die on its blade–her soul is one of the three hundred needed to fill the Sword with enough humanity to kill the Gods’ Unknown Kin. She’s also the one destined to bathe the blade in the other souls it needs…by solving the riddles of their identities in order and slaying them. Because saving the world may be right, but it’s not necessarily good. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Duty and desire war in the Prophet’s heart as she draws closer to her own death and the end of the world.
(character art by @slvrstrs)
Word count: 192,000. Genre: Fantasy. Status: Revising.
Tags: Major character death, swords and sword fights, magic, found family, tragic star-crossed lesbians, absent gods, witty banter, stabbing, music, stories in taverns, travel montages