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I have a number of projects in development.
Yikes, that sounds awfully pretentious! What I was trying to avoid saying is that, like many other writers, I have a plethora of story ideas or stories that I've started, but not yet finished. I hesitate to count how many of them there are, waiting to be written, waiting to be told. Here are a few that are closer to completion and should be ready to submit for publication in the near future.
"Nettie's Turn" by Elizabeth Lind
A novella submitted for publication in June 2005
Henrietta is an ordinary young woman with extraordinary business talents. She longs for a romantic relationship but fears it will never happen because her very best friend is a beautiful woman. Marla always gains all the male attention with her tall, slender body and blonde hair. She appears to live a charmed life, but Marla harbors her own dark secrets. When Henrietta faces a daunting challenge in the workplace as well as the prospect of a new romance, her friendship with Marla is tested to the limit. Will the two women overcome the serious obstacles in their lives and still remain close? Read "Nettie's Turn" to discover the paths that Henrietta and Marla take and whether or not those paths reconverge to restore a life-long friendship.
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"Enchanted Planet" by A.J. Caywood and Elizabeth Lind
A novella; work in progress
In the 21st century, Braden's Disease devastated male reproductive capability, threatening to wipe out the population of Earth. Cloning men became the acceptable-and only-means by which humans avoided extinction. Through the years, the ritual of women purchasing clones became the norm, and behavioral programming and memory implantation became the equivalent of love.
Katie Holton and Marisa Landry didn't know they were destined to become lifelong friends when they first met at the Compatible Cloning Company to collect their new male companions. They shared mutual interests like writing, good books, traveling…and an attraction to Model BB2410, a clone that most women would never consider ordering. Katie plays it safe and buys the full romance programming for Stephen, while Marisa decides to be cautious in matters of the heart and selects the companion package for Richard, although both women desire the same thing: true love. As their individual relationships mature, the two couples vacation on the Enchanted Planet, where Marisa is the target of an obsessed man determined to steal her away from Richard, and Katie delves into centuries-old voodoo to win over Stephen's affections when his programming disintegrates.
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"The Shadowville Trilogy" by Elizabeth Lind
An anthology of three novellas; work in progress
Book One: "The Shadowville Conspiracy"
Murder and mayhem have infected the town of Shadowville like a sinister virus. Its residents are meeting untimely ends and the werewolf population is being blamed-and punished-by a vigilante group called the Crusaders. But is it really a werewolf behind the killings? Finn, a fabricated human and member of the Shadowville Police Force, must unmask the perpetrator before his best friend, Mort, becomes the next victim. At the same time, Finn pines for his lost love, a voluptuous vampiress who is also Shadowville's Assistant District Attorney, while handling the mercurial moods of his partner, an unpredictable poltergeist.
Book Two: "Out of Shadowville"
Finn hides an embarrassing secret from everyone in Shadowville, while avoiding a process server who actually carries good fortune. Just when Finn thinks he'll finally have enough money to buy Nikky the engagement ring she covets, an evil sorceress takes her revenge on the voluptuous vampiress for stealing an old lover. Through a wicked spell, Nikky and her friend, Millie, are trapped in the paintings of the New City Art Museum. Finn and Mort must rescue their women but can they rely on the alleged expertise of a slovenly, vulgar, cigar-smoking, ill-mannered witch to help them?
Book Three: "A Shadowville Wedding"
It's a family affair as Finn, a police detective from the town of Shadowville, discovers relatives he never knew he had. Wedding woes assail Finn and Nikky as fabricated humans crawl out of the woodwork when Finn's good fortune hits the newspapers. In the midst of bridal showers, baby showers, papparazzi and a financial planner from hell, Finn suspects that someone has resurrected the Crusaders, a vigilante group more interested in executions than justice. Will Finn save Mort and Millie, as well as the rest of the werewolves in Shadowville, and still make it to the church on time?
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"House in the Woods" by Elizabeth Lind
A novel; work in progress
Carly Winthrop, an unemployed writer, along with her best buddy, "Magnet," join a circle of friends for a weekend birthday bash at the woodland retreat of Joe, a successful movie producer and great bear of a man who is celebrating his 50th birthday. Joe deliberately left a critical piece of information off of the gilded invitations, however, for he needs the help of his friends to break a pact made years before with something unspeakably evil. Each of the guests arrives bearing gifts, both the boxes wrapped in colored paper and bows, as well as the talents each of them hold, some unknowingly, that may help Joe recover his soul before it's too late.