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WORKS IN PROGRESS:

Reply All (literary women's fiction, 70,000 words):  Twenty-something bluegrass musician Vivi Reilly is almost the best dobro player in Nashville, but something more than her gender is holding her back. One day, after a tough recording session, Vivi stumbles onto an incredible discovery—the man she thought was her biological father isn’t. Thirty years earlier, her mother, Araminta Reilly, daughter of a small-town Mississippi politician, learned a secret about her own identity that propelled her on a drug-and-sex-fueled journey from deep in the Mississippi Delta to New England and back. Now Vivi and Araminta both have to come to terms with Araminta's secret past. So, following in her mother’s footsteps, Vivi takes a continent-spanning roadtrip in search of her three possible fathers and the blues locked in her  bluegrass music. Women's fiction with a whiff of chick lit—about mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, family curses and finding your center.

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73,500 / 73,500
(100.0%)

Meditations of an Animist: literary thriller. Ray is on the run from a crime he can't remember. Sissy is trying not to start drinking again. And Jonathan Malik, a New York cop on loan to the Atlanta PD, is looking for a killer.

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43,000 / 70,000
(61.4%)
Working NaNoWriMo Title: Interminable (middle-grade fantasy) The occupation of the City was swift, ruthless and complete. Thousands of the royal family were executed within the first hours. At least those the unknown invaders could find. One that they couldn't was Lena, the 13-year-old grand-daughter of the king's sister. Lena flees into the vast tunnels and catacombs under the  ancient city. Drawing on the skills in deception and stealth that made her unpopular in her family, she begins to pull together a group of survivors. Along with a direct heir to the throne, she leads the survivors to sanctuary and begins to mold them into a weapon bent on revenge.

Rosalita: YA urban fantasy. Luis Flores accidentally releases an ancient Greek maenad from captivity and then struggles to free the girl she possesses.

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15,000 / 50,000
(30.0%)