All right, I'm in a pretty strange position here. I've written three books. I dumped one for the foreseeable future and am heavily editing the second one, because I think I can bring this thing to publication. But it's going to take a serious lot of work.

At the same time, I'm writing one other book, a fantasy novel about a witch hunter, a dominatrix, conspiracies and the end of the world. I have one almost on its way to writeable, a cyberpunk novel about a not-Brazil where an Angel Investigations style team finds themselves up against a corporation who wants to control the city. This isn't counting ... well, several other ideas. Like the cold war of bugs, a vague idea about graverobbers and a manipulative sorceress, and, the newest idea, dark urban fantasy set in Berlin in 1871.

If the ideas sound good, write your own!

I'm looking for someone in the same position - someone who spent the effort to write two or three books, and might be on their way to publication. I'm looking for someone who's aware that it's a long damn process, and it might not even get anywhere for all the work you put into it.

Sorry if I sound picky as hell, but it isn't a search for a beta reader, it's a search for a little more. It's worth a shot. I'm looking for someone reliable who writes completely demented, and dark, books. Reply to the thread, check out my livejournal, or something. Any takers?

This is part of why I grabbed a City of Villains subscription. Because of the character creator I could finally see the faces of my people in detail.

Note; this does not work for authors who can't draft and revise and have to get it right first time.  There are several successful ones in the field.

Anyone you can mention? I'm a bit this way, as rereading is never my thing, and I'm curious.

And in reply to the thread: those are really interesting observations! Like Neurovore said, it's probably partly because of the get-things-moving-now voice of the DFs. But it's still intriguing, as a person whose descriptions are the key problem.

Ravirn and Cerice in the Webmage urban-fantasy-esque books are hackers that look like elves.

Eddi in War for the Oaks is a rock singer.

Try the Angel TV series.

My plan is a spy thriller with a renegade Macross Plus-esque AI, master races, guns which create diseases and a hero who I should probably make a little less similar to Shadow from American Gods.

Oh yeah, I feel excited. First I have to finish the novel I'm working on this month...

Critique Circle is pretty nice. I haven't posted too many stories as yet, because I'm working on novels and can't post all of my chapters yet.

I find it freaking difficult to find entertaining stories on there, though. I'm just picky, I think. If I could, and if I had more bloody availability, I would probably give them more critiques. I glance in every once in a while.

"Showing yourself that you can write a novel" was, I think, the original goal of Nano. I want to prove that I can finish more than a few projects.

What's so depressing about November? For me, a Minnesotan, winter work wonders for writing things.