What're you all writing?

I'm working on a "Psychic vs. Psycho Thriller." What's crazy is that for 30 years I would have sworn up and down my first novel would be hard SF.

It looks like I'll have to get a pen name. Maybe something French... G. A'loot?

I'm working on a supernatural mystery and an urban fantasy novel, as well as co-writing a fantasy/mystery/romance set in London.

Adventure

I write adventure. Fantasy and science fiction mostly, with a tendency toward the former.

I am currently working on the second novel in a soft sci-fi trilogy about seven people stranded on a world ruled by sentient dinosaurs. It sounds absurd in synopsis, so I won't even try to convey a sense of the plot here.

Fantasy, currently. I also like Science Fiction. Current story is about a guy trying to avoid destiny and finding out that destiny isn't what he'd thought. It's a romp with a philosophical twist.

I'm working on a historical urban fantasy set in Restoration London.

I have several ideas for works of historical fantasy, and see them as an interlinked series of books--yet each one could stand alone. Even as I am working on the first one, I'm also picking up bits and pieces of information to use in subsequent novels.

I also have a character who is demanding that I write him into a work of present-day urban fantasy, and while he and his story are fascinating he's also very difficult to work with. I have a broad story arc, and a few supporting characters, but there needs to be a larger purpose to the story or he will be wasted. I haven't found that yet, but I keep making notes on his story on 3x5 cards and tossing them in a box with his name on it. Eventually I will figure out exactly what I'm supposed to do with that story, and write it...

1) Historical, but not biographical, about S.T. Coleridge and William Wordsworth and centered around the time Lyrical Ballads was published. I'm convinced they were passionately, but obviously secretly, in love.
1a) Also a play based on the same premise
2) Erotic Thriller/Suspense, which is a sequel to my current finished MS "Mad World."
3) Historical erotica, also a sequel to my first published novel (Release TBA)
4) Category romance. Just to see if I can do it.
5) Two mystery/suspense novels.

When I've finished my novel, it will either fantasy, science fiction, or what I what I guess you might call magical realism or slipstream. I won't know for sure until I"m a lot further into it than I am now.

Horror.

Supernatural, I guess. There are demons, angels, "shadows", and the like.

Also there is a love interest. Of sorts. And the MC is a serial killer. But he's also a good guy. There's a very valid reason he's going around killing random people.

My main WIP is hard to describe or put into just one category/genre. It's a story I've been working on for over seven years. It was originally a soap opera until recently, when I decided I would convert it into a novel series. I call it "The Soap Novel Series" on the internet, but that's not its real title. The only description I am giving out at the moment is this:

"'THE SOAP NOVEL SERIES' explores the lives of the inhabitants of a small town, infamous for its supernatural occurences, after a serial killer suddenly emerges."

The story will unfold over seven novels, and will have those two umbrella stories (the supernatural and the serial killer mystery), 80+ characters (sounds like a lot but not all of them are introduced in the first book, others come along later, and obviously if there is a serial killer, characters must die), and all of the characters' subplots and how they work into the two umbrella stories.

So, I don't really know what genre it is. There's the supernatural stuff, the soapy/drama stuff, the serial killer "mystery," and a lot that's in between. But, that's what I'm currently working on.

Swords and Sorcery, with an emphasis on the Swords. Much smiting! Probably also falls into the Military SF sub-genre. Baen is one of my target markets.

I am writing an erotic romance in an urban fantasy setting (magic, elves etc).

My WIPs

I have just finished a fairly light-hearted mystery (does that make it a "cozy"?!) about an English barrister who gets drawn into defending a nun accused of murder in rural Texas. It's sitting with an agent now, so fingers crossed.

Because my fingers are crossed writing is hard but I have just started the next in the series, where my barrister defends a tramp wrongly accused of killing an investigative reporter.

Good thread, it's fun to see what people are working on!

Am I allowed to post in here? I write nonfiction local history. I have two published books and am working on my third. I put an excerpt from my WIP on the AW Idol Competition, which you can see on the first page of entries.

underthecity

Working on the third book in a YA series with a touch of the paranormal. The first book was a murder mystery/ghost story and I'm trying to keep the psychic/paranorml flavour in the series.

Fantasy/adventure, mainly as the background for the story I really want to tell, which is about one of the main characters coming to terms with his ability to do magic. He used to hunt wizards for a living, by the time the story ends, he's going to become a wizard. The writing is utter crap right now, but I'm still on the first draft. And utter crap is still better than all the stuff I gave up on a chapter and a half into, because there was no story worth telling.

There's also fragments of a space opera floating around in my head. I'm still waiting to find the main story that ties them together so I can write it down.

Eowen

Thriller/suspense/police procedural - it may lean one way or another by the end, who can tell?!
Also have bits and bobs on an urban fantasy, which has recently started trying to take over.
There's also a bit of lit fic that seems to want to get out, but I'm not letting it at the moment. Not where my ambitions lie, and I'm fairly certain it's also not where my skills lie!

I'm writing a story about disfunctional relationships set in the Dark Ages. There's some fantasy elements in it but they are not central to the plot.

Andreas

As of right now, a middle-grade mystery/ghost story.

Working on several at one time. A romance novel that's infront of Time Warner, a YA fantasy, an inspirational that's also before another publisher, and several children's books. I recently made a list of all the WIPs I started/drafted - there were 60 in all and I'm going down the list, one-by-one and completing them. To-date, 20 completed and I keep adding to the list.

My first novel was YA Science Fiction. It's still not published, but I'm trying. My WIP is a Fantasy for the adult market and I'm currently revising it.

I'm also working on a series of YA short mysteries. The protagonists are two girls who solve mysteries and debunk paranormal phenomena at the same time. (The mysteries all in some way involve the paranormal.)

Should I be using different pen names for these different genres?

I'm working on an Epic Fantasy that brings together beings from two realms in a cosmic chess match where the fate of a world is at stake.

The evil ethereal beings were cast out of their own realm as a result of a failed civil war in which they are defeated by the virtuous. Now, doomed to this lesser planet, they have found themselves robbed of their powers, by a secret force which is tied to the virtue of the creatures native to that world.

Realizing they can regain power through the corruption of the planet's natives, they turn all of their efforts to that end.

To complicate matters, there is a second civil war where the Virtuous ethereal beings are divided again, changing the balance of power. If the two evil factions join together, they will now have the power to return and take back their former realm.

But in order to acquire full power, they must destroy every inhabitant of the world where they are cast aways.

The Virtuous ethereal beings are fighting for these inhabitants while the Evil fight against them.

Ah, but this is too simple! There is a rule that complicates matters further. The Virtuous can't interfere in the decisions of the the ones they are trying to protect. They can't stop them from becoming fools that empower their real enemies destroy them, or even explain the peril they are in. However, the bad guys have no hold's barred. They can appear metaphorically as angels of light, to convince these natives that they are really the good guys.

You'll have to buy the book if you want to know the rest. But this is only skimming the beautiful surface of a very complex series. (Hopefully to be found in a bookstore near you)

Copywritten by Nateskate. Agent inquiries always welcome. (Unless you are a POD or worse)

Wow, there's a lot of fantasy in here.

As for me, I really have no clue about what the heck it is I'm penning. Genre? What's that?!

Either a saga set against historical backdrop, or a totally delusional exercise of self-indulgence. Take your pick.

The one making the rounds with agents is a contemporary fantasy, more on the side of what Charles De Lint calls Mythic Fiction. The main character is loosely related to stories about phoenixes (phoeni?) and firebirds, and Faerie gets its hooks in on the side.

The one in progress is an imaginary-world fantasy, set on a series of tropical islands. About two generations back, the usual colonist/native clash happened, but a combination of magic and divine intervention led to a rather different result. For the moment, things are in balance - but there wouldn't be a story f it stayed that way for long. The natives, in this case, are selkies.

The one I was supposed working on before that took over (And which I'll return to eventually, probably in October) is a more standard fantasy - medieval setting, Snow White, and dragons - I mentioned in another topic.