WORKS IN PROGRESS Reply All (upmarket women's fiction, complete at 73,000 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 road trip in search of her three possible fathers and the blues locked in her bluegrass music. Meditations of an Animist (upmarket mystery, complete at 70,000 words): Ray Eagan is on the run from a crime he can’t remember. Sissy Reilly is trying not to start drinking again. Jonathan Malik, a young New York cop on loan to the Atlanta P.D., is looking for a killer. When Sissy hires Ray to help her clean up her late grandmother’s house in Nashville, what they discover is more than who killed Ray’s childhood friend. Ray confronts the beast that lives deep in every soul. Sissy finds that she can fill the hours with something more than Bombay Sapphire, and Malik solves the mystery by plumbing his own troubled past. Invasion (middle-grade sci-fi, complete at 59,000 words): The occupation of the City was swift, ruthless and complete. Thousands of members of the royal family were executed within the first hours. At least those the unknown invaders could find. One that they couldn't was 13-year-old Lena, who 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 and the mysterious sentient Grid that powers her civilization, she pulls 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.