Work in Progress
WIP Wednesday – Granter of Impossible Wishes
It’s WIP Wednesday and storyteller Kat Vancil is working on… a short story for this year’s Fantasy & SciFi Writers Alliance contest + Queer books for your TBR!
It’s WIP Wednesday and storyteller Kat Vancil is working on… a short story for this year’s Fantasy & SciFi Writers Alliance contest + Queer books for your TBR!
Romeo and Juliet meets The Little Mermaid in this gender-swapped Boys Love mashup featuring sirens on a magikal island.
I got the idea for this story when I learned Hans Christian Andersen gave the original manuscript for The Little Mermaid to his friend Edvard Collin as an engagement present.
Revenge is a ruinous game. But love is more ruinous still.
Yukine Tachibana lost the person most precious to him on a cold winter morning when his older half-brother Tomoe was discovered floating in the river with his heart carved out. Now 9 years later, Yukine is determined to use all the Gifts he possesses to see that his brother’s murderer pays for the life they stole, no matter the risks.
Because revenge is a ruinous game. But love is more ruinous still.
Ruinous is a story set in an alternative history in which fairy magic is real and the persecuted were forced to flee to the New World which we call “America” and they call The Islands.
A mashup of cozy “boys who own a bakery” fantasy and a gender-swapped retelling of The Wild Swans/The Six Swans.
Some are gifted with greatness. And some have to fight with every breath to be seen.
Cypress Greenewood had one goal in life—become the first magus in a hundred years to leave the village of Edge behind and attend Basaltt’s premier magik school. But when Cypress is gifted nothing and Asher Ebon, his greatest rival (and biggest crush) is gifted powerful magik instead, Cypress is left to hopelessly suffer the mockery of his peers.
That is until Cypress is granted a gift that is half blessing, half curse. The Aether Wand. A wand of legend that contains untold potential and even greater danger as he soon finds out. Because when he brashly casts a bit of magik that goes awry, Cypress accidentally transforms Asher into his cat familiar.
Now Cypress and Asher must travel to Feldspar Academy for the Magikal Arts and survive all the trials that await them in Basaltt’s capital if they’ve any hope of undoing the curse and returning Asher to his proper body.