Tabi Card's Blog: Writerly Ramblings - Posts Tagged "at-first-sight"

It's the slow part of the afternoon for me as I type this post, a dreary time of day where my mind wanders but my brain refuses to form a proper connection that would result in working (definition: writing/revising the drafts of my 2016 projects). Instead I browse through Pinterest and revel in the many, many GIFS that exist for my fandoms.

And write this random blog post.

But, this is a post full of vague spoilers and hints about upcoming projects. Ah, but not the projects I mentioned in my previous post, nope. Way, way future projects that I am 99.9% sure I will write and publish one day, hopefully within the next 5-7 years.

Thinking far, I am.

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The LIST:
I will disclose the genre of said series as well as possible hints, but for the sake of secrecy I won't go beyond that. I love sharing stories, but until they're written/in the process of being written, I won't say much about upcoming projects because I want to keep my ideas.

Planned trilogies: (4)

- Afterwards

- A dystopian trilogy reminiscent of Maze Runner & Hunger Games; lots of inner rebellion and betrayal in this one. Also a fun fact: first actual completed YA novel I ever wrote.

- An urban futuristic paranormal dystopian: think The 100 meets the Shadowhunters world.

- A historical fantasy re-imagining of Mary Poppins (I'm in love with the concepts I have for this.)

Planned duologies: (2)

- Futuristic thriller with plenty of intrigue and romance: think The Selection meets Matrix.

- Contemporary urban paranormal: think Beautiful Creatures meets The Raven Boys.

Planned novels: (14)

- Mersong

- Project Human

- Contemporary new-adult romance

- Contemporary YA romance

- A re-imagining of The Phantom of the Opera: taking from both the original French novel and the musical. (Really, really, really in love with this one.)

- Retelling of The Time Machine because there are so many open ends left (in my opinion) and it's one of my all-time favorite classic sci-fi books.

- Historical fiction based in South Africa and set in the 19th century

- Historical fiction alternate fantasy world set in early Arabia: think Hidalgo meets The Scorpio Races.

- Retelling/re-imagining of Peter Pan.

- Victorian horror fiction (feat. zombies) that I came up with long before PPZ was a thing.

- Fantasy political drama (with a dash of forbidden love)

- A monster story where a girl has been friends with the monster under her bed for years.

- Contemporary new-adult rich girl/bad boy

Planned series: (4)

- Modern faeries with a twist.

- A twist on Wonderland

- Middle grade 5 book series with a snarky heroine as the narrator and plenty of superhero action.

- Epic fantasy involving dragon riders, multiple kingdoms, a huge backplot, many characters, lots of plot twists. (Fun fact: this is to date one of my longest story ideas ever that keeps on growing and evolving over the years. It will be quite a project once I start really working on it, but it's a challenge I'm looking forward to.)

Random:

- Scribbles: A Collection of Words

- A secondary Scribbles with 10-12 short stories. (Fun fact: these collections evolved from ideas I had and couldn't let go, but weren't enough to merit writing an entire book/series.)

- Wanderful Musings My first and probably only poetry collection.

- Spun Again Tales novella series, because the retellings I have in mind aren't long enough to be novels or short enough to be short stories, but I have about 10 fairytales I have set to be retold, both classic and little-known.

- A contemporary novella with the elements of both thrillers and mystery, young-adult and romance... working title is Coincidence and I have yet to decide when I want to publish this, but it is a set idea that is going to be written within the next year or so.

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Now, while some of these may seem similar to the other (and once I finally wrote all of these down I can narrow down my preferred audience to definitely Young-Adult, with sub-genres of dystopian, sci-fi, paranormal, magical, and fantasy... with a few trips down contemporary lane) that is probably a result of me working my hardest not to give too much of the plots/scenarios away.

There are also about 10 other floater ideas I have for other stories but right now these are the most concrete. Most of them are still evolving, a few are pretty cemented in my head, and all are definite future projects.

I'd love to hear from people what they think about my future stories, and I probably might divulge even more information should a comment thread start up, hint hint.

For pictorial sneak peeks at some of the above-mentioned stories, check out my Pinterest account... https://www.pinterest.com/feygurl/