WIPs

WIP: Work in Progress (otherwise known as writing insanity project, whiskey intake process, or whining in prose), a shorthand acronym writers use to identify the story/stories currently occupying the spaces in their brain where remembering to grocery shop or finish laundry are supposed to live.

This is supposed to be an author’s website, so it seems worth posting what’s coming next, besides the book review list.

Fiction:

• “Banshee” A reluctant witch and a cursed professor are hunted by an ancient evil on the shores of Lake Superior. I’m currently 70k words into this one, with a fully annotated outline. Of course I’ve already deviated from said outline, because I tend to write in a hybrid planner/pantser mix. Currently, said witch is pretty damn angry with said professor for bringing said curse to Duluth and disrupting her life.
• Prometheus Project: a fantasy-romance based on the question What happens when a giant eagle ingests pieces of a god every day for thousands of years?

Non-Fiction:

• When I went through surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and hormone treatment for breast cancer, I looked for books to help, but couldn’t find what I needed. So I decided to write one. At the end of 2023 it was acquired by Crossed Crow Books. You can read about it here, and when the book is published in Spring 2025 it’ll have its own page.
• A witchy sequel in development for navigating divorce.
• I’ve tossed around the idea of doing a witchy cookbook for cancer survivors (during and post-treatment), mixing recipes with ritual and spells, but that’s currently in the mulling-about stage.

My WIP list is not the same as my backlog (which will someday be my backlist: books I’ve published, vs books in my head). The backlog is six books long at the moment, three with preliminary outlines, one with a full annotated plan. That one should be next after the Banshee novel is finished.

As if that isn’t enough, there are currently at least three horror short stories lurking who occasionally poke their snouts from dark crannies in my brainpan.