Master Post of Current Projects
Youtube:
Geography for World Builders:
A series of videos about different geographic features, how they work, and how they affect the development of societies near them, geared to fantasy writers.
Infectious Disease for World Builders:
A series of videos about infectious diseases, how they work, and how they affect societies. Broken down by transmission route and geared toward fantasy writers.
ViUzka Mythology:
A fictional series of college lectures about the equally ficticious ViUzka people and their mythology and folklore. Utterly self indulgent world building for its own sake. Loosely connected to the Volcano Spirit novel project listed below.
Plus assorted short videos
Novels:
Volcano Spirit:
A planned middle grade novel about a girl who has a year to find the lost volcano goddess, or the god of ice will kill her. She spends the year in the wilderness on the slopes of the volcano with her two talking animal companions, learning the ways of the land around her, before eventually discovering that she is the volcano goddess. If that sounds like an obvious twist, remember, I'm writing this for eight to twelve year olds. Takes place within the ViUzka mythology.
Shree:
I mean, technically I've been working on this project since I was fifteen, and I do have some drafts of the first novel, but they are terrible and I have torn it to pieces and rearranged it completely in the last few months. It's an epic fantasy about a selkie empire. In the last few decades, one selkie kingdom has emerged to conquer a swathe of human coastal nations. Now the granddaughter of the empress finds herself alone on land with the last prince of one of the conquered countries, trying to keep him alive. Will be a trilogy.
Weak is the Crown:
Formerly known as Nicandor and Sortanza, which are still the names of the main characters. Political romance about an arranged marriage between the last heirs of two feuding branches of a royal dynasty. Heavily inspired by the Wars of the Roses and the Tudors, but no one is an analog to anyone actually from the period.
The Palace of Broken Blossoms:
This isn't so much a current project as a germ of an idea about a fantasy romance between a disgraced royal concubine and her maid, that takes place in the Palace of Broken Blossoms, the dumping ground for concubines out of favor with the king. May end up becoming a short story. I have done next to nothing with this.
