Completed Fiction

I’ve written an average of about 450 words of fiction a day since I was laid off, but that number is misleading: some of those words have been rewritten several times. The more meaningful number is 28 rejections from agents and 25 from publishers in that same period. And before anyone asks, no, I haven’t used AI to write any of this. Most of these projects are years old—I’m just taking advantage of my unexpected idleness to revise or rewrite them. Beneath Coriandel (adult fantasy novel): A young man descends into the crypts beneath the city to slay a monster, a woman plots to steal her niece’s youth, a talking horse foils a robbery, and a magician wonders why she can’t get a particular nursery rhyme out of her head. Iffy (YA science fiction novel): Two hundred years from now, in a melting Antarctica, an orphaned clone named Iffy is haunted by the blueprints for strange machines that appear unbidden in her mind. The Bookster’s Apprentice (YA fantasy novel): A bookish girl who lives on…

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