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I'm in the query trenches with ANYWHEN right now.
While I'm there, I'm also working on my column and writing fiction.
Check out ANYWHEN's pitch deck and my other WIP below.
ANYWHEN
Young Adult, Speculative Fiction
RESEARCHING TIME
A 25-year-old genealogy assistant receives a laptop that not only solves her clients’ ancestry questions, it transports her back in time to live them.
When you want to research your family’s history, you hire a genealogist. When you want to solve your family’s mysteries, you hire her.
As a genealogy research assistant, Abby Smart has seen it all. First cousins marrying each other? On ten different trees. Grandkids passed off as kids? On seven. Hidden divorces? Way too many times to count. The gift-wrapped laptop on her front porch, however, is a first.
From “Anonymous,” and already full of her work files, when she taps one of her clients’ problem branches labeled “Versailles” Abby’s there, shoulders pressed against the mirrored wall, a silk ball gown hefted around her waist. And the man Abby thought was that woman’s ancestor is nowhere to be found, replaced by the actual King of France who does not appreciate the word, “Non.” In a frantic dance of lunge, dodge, grab, and sprint, Abby finds herself back inside her bedroom, gasping wide-eyed at the computer screen with more questions than answers.
When it happens again, and then again, one client conundrum after another solved, Abby’s career rockets forward at lightning speed. It isn’t until there’s a personal connection to the one that got away—the boyfriend who vanished during college—that possible answers surface as to who sent the strange gift. But unearthing the clues to her most heart-wrenching mystery won’t matter if the laptop’s battery runs out, trapping her in the past forever.
RESEARCHING TIME, a 110,000 word NA novel with crossover and series potential, is told as Quantum Leap meets The Astral Library in a fast-paced mystery with thriller and historical romantasy elements.
A 22-year-old princess telekinetically defends her kingdom from a wheelchair while reluctantly falling for someone she thinks is the enemy.
Most heroes fight on two legs; she’ll fight on four wheels.
22-year-old Princess Annihya of Quinnlin has it all: wealth, privilege, and a superpower granted to her at 16. The fact that she chose telekinesis over a cure for her fractured spine isn’t as big a deal as her father, King Leo, believes. But being able to throw knives with her mind beats living life as a normal—someone without powers—so who cares if it’s from a wheelchair seat?
On the night of her Introductory Ball, she realizes two thirds of her potential husbands are normals, and she balks at advice to choose one of them to create unity between the twenty restless kingdoms.
Then Anniyah meets Greer, throwing every rigid belief she has into utter chaos. And if they don’t reluctantly join forces, both their worlds will collapse.
ANNIYAH OF QUINNLIN, a 100,000 word NA Romantasy novel with crossover and series potential, is told as The Selection meets The Crowns of Nyaxia series.