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New Release

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My most recent novella Hakusan Angel was recently released with Less Than Three Press on April 9th.

I am really excited about this book because I love writing about hardcore ladies that can handle themselves.

For those of you who haven’t heard of it already, Hakusan Angel is a story in the Mecha Anthology A Loose Screw and goes along with the theme of giant machines piloted by humans. A good example of a Mecha story is Pacific Rim. Anyway, the premise of my story is that the machines are powered by people’s energy, and people who have enough energy to power a machine are called Sources. The level of energy a person has differs, and the higher the power, the rarer they are. One of my main characters is the extremely rare Level One Source who has been hiding her powers and the other main character is a pilot.

I really liked writing this story, because my Source character Kaede and my pilot character Mariko both had distinct personalities from the start and writing them was easy. The hard part was getting them to actually work together for long periods of time without storming off. They have a very strong difference of opinion, and once I’d written that into their personalities, it was hard to get them to reconcile.

This is a f/f romance, and I know that in the book market, those don’t sell as well as m/m romances. It’s a great shame, because I love this story and think that people who love sci-fi, fantasy and mecha stories are missing out because they don’t like the pairing. This story has a lot of action scenes in it, and if I’m good at writing anything, it’s action scenes.

Anyway, that’s my love for my latest release. I have an awesome story, awesome characters, awesome cover art and an awesome publisher, so if that’s not enough for some people, there’s really not much else I can do.

What I’m Working on this Spring (2014)

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The life of a writer can sometimes be quite hectic. Often, you get a new idea, and before you know it, you have five different projects, three of which you have writers’ block on. I have a list of things I have to work on, and that includes finishing the writing part, having them beta read by a couple of different people (fellow authors for the most part), revising (adding/deleting scenes), editing and submission to my publisher of choice (currently Less Than Three Press).

So, my list of things I am currently doing work on:

  1. The novel I started for NaNoWriMo 2013 that I didn’t finish in the required time. It’s a dystopian cyberpunk novel that’s looking to be between 50-60K words. I’m 95% finished that one and have at least two betas lined up for when I do finish it. I’m looking at a completion date before the end of February, beta reading by the beginning of March, revising/editing by mid-March and submission before the end of March.
  2. I started a novella before I started my NaNo novel, but that was put on the back-burner while I was writing Project#1. This one is contemporary, set in Seattle and is primarily a romantic comedy taking place in university. It involves a lot of cross-dressing and confusion. That one is only 5-10% done, but I’ve already done the plotting, planning and character design. No idea when that will be done, I’m hoping end of April, but who knows.
  3. I’m in the plotting and planning stages of a story for one of Less Than Three’s anthology calls: Damsels in Distress, which is a femslash anthology focusing on ladies that can rescue themselves. This one is historical fantasy taking place in WW2 Russia. I’m still doing lots and lots of research, because a lot happened to Russia in WW2. Also, not many people are aware, but Russia had really badass lady pilots. Ladies in leather jackets and goggles? Count me in. Have to finish this one by the end of May, as that’s the submission deadline.

That’s the ones I’m definitely in the process of writing. I’ll keep everyone updated as to how that’s going and do another of these posts in summer. Got to keep up a writing schedule!