Maidenfine's Muse

For the most up to date information, feel free to visit my blog.

I keep updates there about my current writing, as well as my goals and family. Beginning with the new year, I will most likely be updating there even more frequently.

 

Webs.com has been adding new capabilities for my site. I just added a forum for members. And I'll also send out email notices when I update my site. So if you want to keep up, sign up.

Hunting Lark was my 2008 NaNovel, written in connection with Sotalia's 2008 NaNovel, Cast Aside (working title).

In 1998, Drake Carter was witness to Lark Thayer's rape at the hands of his football buddies. After helping her to send her rapist to jail, Drake was all too happy to leave the entire mess behind, moving to California for law school. Ten years later, he hasn't forgotten the brown-eyed girl he cared so much for, and when his job sends him back to St. George, he knows he'll come face to face with the girl that haunts him. Ironically, he'll also come face to face with the ghost that haunts him. With the help of Lark and her wacky radio friends, Drake attempts to find a murderer. And maybe he's closer than they think.

Read the prologue.

Status: First Draft completed. Edits later this year.

The Mansion is my first completed novel. It follows three sets of teenaged twins who are sent to live in a creepy mansion. Their parents participated in an experiment before they were born and now they have to undergo observation. But the longer they're in the house, the more secrets they uncover. Like the fact that they all seem to have supernatural abilities.

I have taken down the original Sims 2 series, but I still have plenty of preview stuff here.

Review of the Online Version

The Mansion Movies: The online series won the Make My Movie Contest hosted by GospelSims.com, so there is a series of machinima adapted from the original rough draft. They are wonderfully done and I recommend all of Blessed3126's videos. She's a wonderful director.

Prologue

Status: Submitting Queries to Agents

The Mansion 2: Demons is the sequel to The Mansion: The Experiment. Episode 2.1 was uploaded in the usual fashion, however, all remaining episodes (for the time being) will be uploaded as text only here at the Muse.
Episode 2.1: Rewind (find it without pictures here.)
Episode 2.2: Pause
Episode 2.3 Record
Episode 2.4: Insert

Status: 2.5 has 2 scenes left to go.

Ebony, a 19-year with nothing to look forward to, is recruited to topple the world's ruler. In order to accomplish her goals, she must venture into the Four Corners, areas of elemental chaos, to retrieve a set of rings that will allow her to steal the Magnificent's magical abilities.
Links:
    Sample Chapter
Status: First Edit in progress

When Gizi Hofman celebrates her 20th birthday, it's not with anticipation or excitement. Due to her family's curse, she has exactly one year to get married or die a horrible death. The only problem is, she doesn't have the least bit of interest in getting married. Deciding to run away, she ends up in Monterrey, CA. In a new place, where no one knows about her family's history, she tries to find love, or at least a suitable facsimile. What she finds instead is magic, torture, shady business deals, and a few friends that will change her life.

Gizi is only the first of the Hofmans to go looking for love, and the others are all a part of the Hofman Chronicles.

Status: The first two books are currently being edited for NaNoEdMo. The third is being edited by a co-author. The fourth and fifth have yet to be written though prologue-ish parts are done.

For information on National Novel Writing Month, visit www.nanowrimo.org.
   

I'm Afraid I Have To Kill You Now (2006)

Elemental (2007) Winner!

Hunting Lark (2008) Winner!

Editors and Agents: If you are interested in one of my projects, I can be contacted at Maidenfine at gmail dot com.

Last Updated on: 3/18/2009