Lengthier list of projects with some
descriptions. This isn't even everything - I'm also working on two pilots and a film script:
Sky Crossing
Fantasy series about a bunch of high
school students drawn into a fantasy world – it's just that it's
Ten-Ghost's world. Will be more traditional “fight bad guys, be
awesome, has lots of tropes” type stuff. And character growth,
obviously. One kid learns to un-learn his violent tendencies and to
be a magician and gets to pal around with a crazy old man who is
literally trying to outwit Death for a few more weeks (he wants to go
on his own terms). One kid is turned into a local girl and discovers
he's supposed to be joining a powerful family as the daughter of the
matriarch – princess story, except the princess has no idea what
the hell is going on. The girl who got picked up with him must come
to terms with the idea that her role in this isn't pink and fluffy,
and she needs to woman up and get an axe. One kid learns she is a
spirit in human form – the ehskoojee – god-in-flesh, and must
learn to reconcile that with her previously held beliefs, largely by
teaching the boy – a griffin otherkin coming to terms with a
challenge to his own beliefs – who got picked up with her how to
use the scientific method on things.
Will span several volumes. Volume 1
complete and can be read, but needs heavy work.
Spider Series
Takes place in Aesca/Ten-Ghost's world.
Coming of age literary shit.
Spider & Turtle: “You are
not always in control, even of your own actions.” Ikasa Spider is
awkward, selfish, dealing with anxiety and depression issues, and a
teensy bit manic, but brilliant. Her family loses its magician store
due to the ongoing depression and moves in with their grandmother in
Fort Hammock. Ikasa inherits a turtle mummy that contains the Spider
family's “greatest shame” and must deal with the issues it
presents without losing herself in the process.
Spider & Alligator: “Hard
work does not equal success.” Ikasa tries to work hard and be
responsible to purchase a high-cost music player at the general
store; fails.
Spider & Maize-Cutter:
“Poverty doesn't teach people to be resourceful or thrifty – it
only teaches them how to be poor.” Ikasa hooks up with the
maize-cutters, another, alien sophont that lives in the jungles
nearby the human settlements. She comes up with a money-making scheme
selling them human cultural artifacts for gems and is eventually
caught due to her carelessness with both selling and buying goods.
Spider & Stone Man: “You
are your own worst.” Ikasa's money problems get her in trouble with
a local gang, who chase her into the abandoned town shrouded in fog
next to Fort Hammock. There she encounters the Stone Man, who,
through violence and threats and emotional manipulation, keeps her
there, digging in the ground for his lost finger. Ikasa must face
herself to find the strength to escape.
Spider & Potter Wasp:
“People change. You can find good people in the worst places.”
Ikasa hooks up with an old friend from her childhood – Potter Wasp
– doing work in a contested area outside the country. They do a bit
of Peace Corps style stuff until they're captured and put to work in
a camp, and Potter Wasp betrays her trust. Ikasa decides to help the
insurgents due to intelligence reports she illegally read.
Spider & Ikasa: Ikasa goes
to the planet Ikasa to face her destiny. Sword and planet, with
literary stuff. Haven't decided yet.
Folk Devil: Ten-Ghost part the
deuce, mandrake boogaloo. Ten-Ghost now has a sprog to watch after,
who asks too many questions and thinks she is a horrible person
(protip: she is). They become trapped in a town going down a spiral
into quarantine and infection, and Ten-Ghost must uncover the source
of the infection before the military steps in with flamethrowers and
napalm.
Ascalon: Series of short stories
about a perfectly normal girl who discovers she is a dragon – and
that dragons must build people up and then horrifically break them in
order to feed, and how she finds loopholes in the system.
BDO-Z (tentative name): Miniatures
painter/model builder Claire is picked up by a massive space
station/structure and must escape the machinations of Granule 2, as
well as its winged minions. She travels through the station, meeting
up with a mechanical armature missing its core memory and processor,
a cyborg with horrible depression, and a member of a warrior culture
who despises conflict, all in the hopes of finding a coder that can
help her get home.
Thank You Notes to My Assassins:
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