Out of Hiding / Spores / Chase
You can do it, Squirrel (Children’s Book)
Spores
The Water & Earth series is my current project. It has been fully planned for years, but something had always been missing. It took years to get started on the sequel but I finally found the right path into the story, and the words are flowing.
In the meantime, enjoy the first book in the series: Spores, an 18,000-word short story that opens the series, introduces many of the main characters, and introduces us to the world of Water & Earth.
Out of Hiding
When a group of dark wizards kills magicians and non-magicians alike, magicians are forced out of hiding after thousands of years of peaceful coexistence. Soon after, magic on one side and weapons on the other create a bloody match and a war seems unavoidable. Trying to prevent a genocide, Cassandra sets out to prove magicians are not a threat. It’s the fight of a witch who is overwhelmed with daily life against a society who is just as eager to hunt witches as it was in the middle ages. She finds new friends and reunites with old ones along the way – prominently among them a gay dwarf and a dragon breeder with a drinking problem.
Chase
This book used to be split into three individual books called Chase, Rebel, and Hunter. I decided to re-edit the book (though I left all the content the same, even some choices I now cringe at) and combined them into one volume.
Work in Progress
Heat (Water & Earth 2)
Heat is my current focus. Progress is slow but it is steady. I am excited about this one. Instead of a blurb, let me give you this tiny excerpt from an early chapter:
Gus shrugs. “Jeremy. You are here. You are telling Charlie. It’s spreading.”
Jeremy looks taken aback for a second but recovers quickly. “I think it’s time for the Zombie plan.”
Charlie can’t help it. She’s laughing. Full fucking belly laughs, too. None of this makes the slightest sense. She’d just quit her job for the zombie apocalypse.
“Dude, you broke her,” she hears Gus observe from what must be very, very far away. Jeremy’s shrug is blurred as she hiccup herself into hysterics. “Zombies,” she pants between fits of giggles. “Actual fucking zombies?”
Jeremy fishmouths helplessly. Gus laughs. “No, no zombies.” His face falls. “But, seriously, Charlie, Jeremy is right. We should get the hell out of here.”
Heat (Water & Earth 2) by Kate Hildenbrand, WIP
With Feelings + Stuff
I am currently editing this one. It is very different from my usual work but it was a book that really wanted to be written. While I have plans for four sequels to this one (one for each of Vasco’s siblings), I don’t think I’ll ever write them. Romance isn’t my genre. Or rather: it’s a genre I don’t enjoy reading, so I have a hard time writing it. I am very happy with the result of this one, and as the story is told, the sequel are entirely optional.