Mae Clair: The Problem WIP…Phoenix or Pyre?

What do you do with the story that refuses to settle into a niche? Resurrect it in a new form, or toss it onto the pyre of works that won’tever see the light of day?Case in point: I’ve been nurturing a manuscript for over twenty years that has been throughmetamorphosis upon metamorphosis.

Back ‘in the day’ I wrote a novella called HERALD OF THE STORM. Today, it would classify as urban fantasy. Back then, I viewed it as magical realism (though that line is still blurry to me). It had a seventee...