Linked/shared worlds
Stories set in the same worlds
My goal in 2025 is to focus on creating short stories and novellas that are linked one another, to completed novels, or to novels in the pipeline. Why? This could draw readers across spaces and platforms. It is also is a taste-tester of the worlds and characters and stories. Also... I love a good easter egg! (I am still reeling about this one: Firefly/Serenity and Aliens/Prometheus is the same story world? Did we KNOW this?).
My Hell-Colony worlds (on a separate page) have always been linked by the one world. Did you know I write other shared worlds/characters/concepts?
When will these pieces be published? Well. It is a veryyyy slow process. I am only looking to traditionally published at this time.
Reaver story world (bones and souls of the dead as Fuel)
Swamp Witch (working title) (novel)
Swamp Witch (working title) (novel)
Swamp Witch (working title) (novel)
Unpublished
Soon to be seeking publishers (mid-2025)
A completed 65k word fantasy adventure piece featuring a 55 year old main character.
This piece was written over the 2024-2025 new year/holiday period. It is sitting with beta readers now, with the hope of being chasing publishers by mid 2025.
Story is about:
A swamp-witch is forced to flee
Unpublished
Soon to be seeking publishers (mid-2025)
A completed 65k word fantasy adventure piece featuring a 55 year old main character.
This piece was written over the 2024-2025 new year/holiday period. It is sitting with beta readers now, with the hope of being chasing publishers by mid 2025.
Story is about:
A swamp-witch is forced to flee attacking Templars the only way she can, by reconnecting with her Reaver heritage.
How it sits in the timeline:
This story sits before the "Fall", which is an undocumented and un-understood event that broke the world into large, floating fragments
Death-Witch and the Rising Fall
Swamp Witch (working title) (novel)
Swamp Witch (working title) (novel)
Unpublished
Stalled (need to finish novel)
Completed 23k novella
Prequel to a novel I am in the process of writing, (novel working title: Death Witch and the TBA).
This piece was written in Nanowrimo 2024 as I challenged myself to write 15 short stories in one month. The story is complete, but there are questions about this world and magical
Unpublished
Stalled (need to finish novel)
Completed 23k novella
Prequel to a novel I am in the process of writing, (novel working title: Death Witch and the TBA).
This piece was written in Nanowrimo 2024 as I challenged myself to write 15 short stories in one month. The story is complete, but there are questions about this world and magical system that I cannot answer until I have finished the novel that completes Trip's character arc.
Story is about:
Trip is an ex-reaver bone-witch living precariously in drunken poverty in the darkest depths of an underside city. Her power weaves Reaver magic and mage-born powers in an odd way. Will it be enough to save her and her friends as calamity rips their city, 'berg and world asunder?
How it sits in the timeline:
Hundreds of years after Swamp With (working title). Ten years before the incomplete novel: Death Witch and the TBA (working title).
Death-Witch and the (TBA)
Swamp Witch (working title) (novel)
Death-Witch and the (TBA)
Unpublished
Incomplete, novel-length piece
I have been wrestling with this one for some time. There is definitely a story here! Expect it to land at the 100k mark.
Story is about:
Charity Takes is a mysterious but drunken joke, living outside the tower of a magical school, selling her chaotic death magic and reaver skills as well as her memor
Unpublished
Incomplete, novel-length piece
I have been wrestling with this one for some time. There is definitely a story here! Expect it to land at the 100k mark.
Story is about:
Charity Takes is a mysterious but drunken joke, living outside the tower of a magical school, selling her chaotic death magic and reaver skills as well as her memories.
Who is she, and where did she come from? What was she running from when she shipwrecked herself, half-dead, into the tower of her benefactor? Charity has no idea. She's sold all her memories for cash to buy drinks. Her enemies circle, Charity's strange power and nature hungers and the horror of something she has done in her forgotten past threatens to engulf her.
How it sits in the timeline:
Ten years after Death-Witch and the Rising Fall. I expect it will have a similiar title. It sets several generations after Swamp Witch, after some dreadful calamity that broke the surface of the world into magically floating pieces.
Unlikely Alliances (worlds and species align against HEll)
Hells-Gate and Heaven's Thunder (Novella)
Renny Holdbrook and the Coven's Curse (Novella)
Renny Holdbrook and the Coven's Curse (Novella)
Unpublished
Chasing publishers
Completed 17500 word fantasy adventure novella.
Story is about:
Faery-blooded Nex is a life-long outsider. When an unplanned mission goes pear-shaped, Nex finds himself in charge of a mismatched, ill-trained team protecting vulnerable human children.
How it sits in the timeline:
About the same time as Renny Holdbrook. This war probably goes on for about twenty years.
Renny Holdbrook and the Coven's Curse (Novella)
Renny Holdbrook and the Coven's Curse (Novella)
Renny Holdbrook and the Coven's Curse (Novella)
Unpublished
Chasing publishers
Completed 23k fantasy adventure novella.
Story is about:
Low-ranked mercenary Renny is part of a chaotic alliance of forces attempting to defeat a powerful interworld enemy. A career grunt, she finds herself tossed in to the mix with a very powerful and unfriendly necromancer and his team. A terrible accident f
Unpublished
Chasing publishers
Completed 23k fantasy adventure novella.
Story is about:
Low-ranked mercenary Renny is part of a chaotic alliance of forces attempting to defeat a powerful interworld enemy. A career grunt, she finds herself tossed in to the mix with a very powerful and unfriendly necromancer and his team. A terrible accident finds the highly independent mature-aged soldier intimately connected with the necromancer in an unwilling and unplanned way.
How it sits in the timeline:
About the same time as the Hells-Gate events. Fighting the same wars in the same worlds.
Enemy of my enemy's... corpse (Short Story)
Renny Holdbrook and the Coven's Curse (Novella)
Enemy of my enemy's... corpse (Short Story)
Unpublished
Chasing publishers
Completed 4700 short story.
This story was written in Nanowrimo 2024 as part of the 15 completed novels and novellas in one month.
Story is about:
This was just another battlefield clean-up for Jody, mopping up the mess filthy dark magic and a leaking Hell has made of a civilian town. The last thing Jody and her
Unpublished
Chasing publishers
Completed 4700 short story.
This story was written in Nanowrimo 2024 as part of the 15 completed novels and novellas in one month.
Story is about:
This was just another battlefield clean-up for Jody, mopping up the mess filthy dark magic and a leaking Hell has made of a civilian town. The last thing Jody and her team of half-trained ancillary staff expected to find was a dead necromancer and a zombie dragon, a town filled with zombies and a team of very unfriendly elves.
How is sits in the timeline:
This piece sits slightly before the Hells-Gate timeline, just as the worlds are on the verge of allying together to face this awful threat. It references the concept that brings them together in the form of reference to an actual person (who I expect I will eventually write a short story about).
Hells-Gate and... (TBA)
Renny Holdbrook and the Coven's Curse (Novella)
Enemy of my enemy's... corpse (Short Story)
Unpublished
Concept (no draft)
Novella or Novellas
Nex and his world burns very bright to me. I am considering writing several novellas in the world, featuring Nex and his adventures.
Story would be about:
Of particular interest to me is the gorgeous, mysterious dark-mage that Nex sees and flirts with. I am considering featuring this love inte
Unpublished
Concept (no draft)
Novella or Novellas
Nex and his world burns very bright to me. I am considering writing several novellas in the world, featuring Nex and his adventures.
Story would be about:
Of particular interest to me is the gorgeous, mysterious dark-mage that Nex sees and flirts with. I am considering featuring this love interest appearing across several adventures, with Nex and this dark-mage eventually meeting properly and pursuing the chemistry between them.
Other shared worlds/Related stories
Necro-Mantic Troubles (4000 words) and Bumps in the Night (8000)
Both unpublished
Both seeking publication
YA satires. The stories overlap with the same school and same student cohort.
Stories are about:
In Necro-Mantic (4000 words) a necromancy student is doing what she shouldn't be doing, on a night she she not be doing, running into a gorgeous 'Old Magic' student. Have the two of them accidentally start
Both unpublished
Both seeking publication
YA satires. The stories overlap with the same school and same student cohort.
Stories are about:
In Necro-Mantic (4000 words) a necromancy student is doing what she shouldn't be doing, on a night she she not be doing, running into a gorgeous 'Old Magic' student. Have the two of them accidentally started the end of the world?
In Bumps in the Night (8000 words) an 'adventure-type' student stumbles upon a terrible mystery - or three. A gorgeous glittery new boy has transferred in, a mysterious very attractive antisocial necromancer has clues and a creepy new landlord is hiding something. What's a girl to do? Solve it, of course!
How it sits in the timeline:
Bumps in the Night sits a few months after the events of Necro-Mantic