Gee, here it is in July, and I haven't posted in months. What's been going on?

Completed projects:
1) The Tree Spirit - another dryad story. Eco-freaks are camping in a tree to prevent logging in an area. They injure Jen the Dryad's husband, and she deals with them.

2) The Ted Wannabe - Caitlinn O'Shay is a lieutenant in the Seattle Police Department, and head of an interagency task force. Young women have been disappearing, sort of like what happened with the Green River Killer and Ted Bundy. Caitlinn is a shape-shifter, one who feeds off of life-energy, and she is attacked and kidnapped by this guy.

3) Minus One - and Minus One: Related Stories - MO is a novel, 120,000 words. I wrote this in a frenzy starting on March 23rd, and having the essentials done in less than a month. It is now in its last rewrite (a lot of details). Jan Sutherland is a musician accused, convicted, and sentenced to 7 to 10 years in prison for Second Degree Manslaughter. The story is about her time inside, what led up to it, and what happens after she's paroled. Hint, the crime is on the first page (in the first paragraph), but most people haven't seen that it was until the last chapter.
Related Stories are the stories that spilled over in the telling: her twin brother Jay's version of events from the outside; her best friend Angie's story; Jan's telling of the next few years after she wins her complete and unconditional freedom, up to and including her wedding and the birth of her first child; band member Pete's story of those events; and band member Charlie's story of watching Jan emerge from the emotional walls prison built around her.

4) I got "Theseus and Ariadne" back from the PNWA writer's contest, to mostly uncomprehending reviews. You can't do much in 14 pages, and this was the shortest Kalliste story other than The Dance.

5) I got "Cross Time Cop" back from the PNWA writer's contest, to mostly terrific reviews. They dinged me on the synopsis, though, and I've been looking to rewrite it. JABberwocky Literary Agency declined to represent it, and again I think the synopsis had a lot to do with it. I did find an excellent link to writing a synopsis, and include it here: http://jpsorrow.livejournal.com/143076.html

6) I'm rewriting "Setosha" with the aim of publishing. I'll have to allude to events in "Firestar" in passing, which will sort of end any suspense of what happens to Corey, but the critical questions are obvious in the opening chapter of "Setosha". Have to write a good synopsis, too.

So that's an update. Back to writing. And I just had to share that synopsis link.