This is a repeat of a request that went out to my newsletter subscribers today.

I’ve just signed up to do four more novels A Twist Upon a Regency Tale. So that’s somewhere between a third and a half of my writing time sorted for the next twelve months. I’ve written the first couple of thousand words in Jackie’s Climb, which is inspired by Jack and the Beanstalk. I’m also going to write my own version of Rumplestiltskin, Tatterhood, and the Twelve Dancing Princesses.

I’m also committed to another Lyon’s Den (and one in 2026), and three more novella for collections. With these added in, I’m sorted for about half of what I can do in the next twelve to sixteen months.

But I’d love your opinion about what I should add to my writing schedule to fill the rest of the time.  I can manage probably another four short or three long novels, and some novellas and short stories.

I’ve outlined the options below, and (for the first four options) given you a link to where you can read more.

Option 1: Lion’s Zoo

In The Darkness Within, the fourth Lion’s Zoo book, I mentioned the men who gathered when Max needed them. Hawk, Wolf, Dragon, Tiger, Centaur. Squirrel, whose real name was Reuben, could probably have his tale told, too.

Find out more about Lion’s Zoo

Option 2: The Golden Redepennings

I still have Books 6 and 7 of The Golden Redepennings to write. Book 6, An Unpitied Sacrifice and Book 7, Children of Wrath.

Find out more about these two books

Option 3: A Coil ln Time

Have I mentioned my Roman time travel? This is it. A three part series following three girls from the twenty-first century as they try out a time machine one of them has made and get stuck in the 2nd century. I’ve written more than half of The Heart of a Roman Gentleman (working title). Two more to go.

You can read an excerpt here.

Option 4: In the Shadow of the Mountain King

This follow-on series from The Return of the Mountain King will tell the stories of the four younger children of the Duke of Winshire, Drew, Rosemary, Barnabas and Thomas, all of whom readers have met in earlier books.

Find out more about the Mountain King and his children. 

Option 5: New Romantasy series

Urban Victorian Noir. Or possibly Georgian Romantasy, or even Medieval.

My ideas are fluid enough to float a battleship, but the plot elves are toying with ideas about the fae once known to, and even worshipped by different cultures, hidden among us–and at war with one another.

Yes, I know. Urban Fantasy, right? But I think I can put a different spin on it. The question is, would you read it?

Option 6: Tidy up loose ends

Then there are the stories that have been lingering for a long time. Revealed in Mist ended with a chapter from Concealed in Shadow, and the rest of the book has never been written. Someone asked me the other day whether Jonathan, Aldridge’s brother, would ever get his story. The answer is yes. He has a story. It is stuck in my head with the plot elves. I need to write it. But when? As for Lord Danwood’s Dilemma, the less said the better.

Can you think of a character I’ve written who deserves a happy ending? Let me know!

Please let me know what you think.

I’ve set up a survey in Survey Monkey. I’ve give each of the options some tick boxes and space for a short comment. But please, feel free to email me if you have more you want to say. I would love to hear from you.