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Capitol Crimes & Ghastly Galas

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Wizard Tales & Lizard Beards

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Projects that are in the simmering stage. Looking for my Current Projects?

Novels

The Dance in the Deeps
Book 1 of The Skylark Recital

Synopsis

Out of the darkness something neither alive, nor dead, will make its voice heard in this comedy of questions.

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By The Falling of a Leaf
Book 1 of The Beloa trilogy

Synopsis

We repeatedly step backward in time to watch the ripples of Delabi Beloa's decisions in the past now having a far greater influence on the future than you might at first expect.

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Anthologies

Wizard Tales & Lizard Beards
A Fantastical Collection from the Paradigm Codex

This anthology ranges from Short Stories (A New Apprentice, just over 7k words) to large novellas (Don't Be Silly; Archons Don't Visit the Swamp, clocking in at over 36k words). The current word count on this project is in over 155,000 words (444 pages).

Contents

  • To Rob A God
    Initial Alpha Read
  • A New Apprentice
    Querying
  • A Clockwork Cadet
    Third Draft
  • Hazard & Hope
    Initial Alpha Read
  • An Ordinary Day Shopping
    1st Draft
  • A Patachwork Town
    Second Draft
  • Don't Be Silly; Archons Don't Visit the Swamp
    Second Draft
  • No Small Sacrifice
    Second Draft
  • Out of Her Depth
    1st Draft
  • The Waystation
    1st Draft
  • Yellow Bellied Commandos
    1st Draft

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Fables for Faëries
Warnings from a father to his son war-bound son.

Planned, but yet to be penned.

Contents

  • To A Dinner With Faëries
    First Draft
  • An Atypical Apothecary
    Outlining
  • Only Fools Dance
    Second Draft
  • The Curse of Love
    First Draft
  • The Essence of Faërie
    Outlining
  • Changeling Changing
    Outlining
  • Wing, Feather, Hoof, & Claw, But Nary A Tail Insight
    Outlining
  • Clean Away
    Querying
  • Tears of Love
    1st Draft
  • Prisoners, Exchanged
    Outlining
  • Struck By Blindness
    Outlinnig
  • A Dinner For Faëries
    Outlining
  • When Faërie Goes to War
    Outlinnig

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Novellas

The Wetherby Letters

Part 1 of The Wetherby Collections.

Corin doesn't see the downside of unexpectedly finding himself in possession of a large out-of-this-world estate, until he notices the debt that came with it.

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A Clockwork Armada
Part of The Clock Works.

Synopsis

A disgraced commodore leads his airships in a politically complex environment in an attempt to rid the skies of pirates and regain his lost honor, hoping that he can return to his home in the Heavenly Isles.
#Steampunk

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The Baron Mage

Synopsis

A retelling of the classical vengeance (you-killed-my-father-prepare-to-die) story.

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Shorter Works

From My Notebooks: Essays on Worlds

I have over 6-score entries that ough to live here. However, they are more encyclopaedic in nature so I have decided not to list them at this time. I have included the more storyeque items below.

Uncollated Short Stories

Games

At this time, each of these games is a full-blow RPG.