hmm, mentioned some of this in my intro, but here goes:
I'm currently a self-published author with four books out (not including my mammoth list of fan fiction stories) and another on the way with a few other ideas.
I'm trying to find an agent or publisher currently, so that I that have some help in publishing my works and don't feel like a louse for mentioning them pretty much everywhere online.
I have a level of popularity in some fanfiction circles, being regarded as having written some of the classics of Ranma fanfiction (boggles my mind, really). I mostly did fanfiction as a way of getting practice in characterization and planning, experimenting with a particular concept specifically while everything else is set and in reading and reacting to reader comment and criticism. Last month I had 13,000 hits across all 48 of my stories, from I think about 5,500 visitors.
I just wish that popularity was easily translated to my original works.....
Anyway, my stories
Greenwater Novels: a serial story (going to go to part 3 and 4 when I finish this current novel) in a high fantasy setting. The main character is a Ffolk(no, that's not a misspelling) "skinner" from a swamp on the edge of civilized land who leaves home after a scandal when his two closest friends were killed by a rogue animal and people start to suspect him of setting it up. He volunteers as a scout for military and ends up in the "Greenwater" which is an inland sea roughly the size of Texas out of which grow trees the size of some mountains. As he arrives, strange things start to happen. An assassin tries to kill an old man in the company he travels with, a snake-woman holy warrior brings word of some sort of prophecy and madness-causing snakes swarm over several villages.
Greenwater Art:
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/?56596#Art-related-to-the-Greenwater-NovelsLinks to the books:
http://stores.lulu.com/thrythlindZodiacs: a gaming project actually, a campaign setting geared to no specific setting that provides information on the cultures, races and magic systems of a continent in the world setting. Sort of a mish mash of Wu Xia, Samurai and Old West stories. There's a short-story book that includes my idea of how the first adventure of the example campaign might go for the pre-written characters.
Zodiac Art:
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/?56596#ZodiacsBystander: Bystander is the series I most want to finish, and the one that is going to be most difficult to get completely out...if I could make a living on writing and write everyday 10+ hours a day, I could get two or three Bystander books done a year, maybe more, but as it stands, I've been developing the main character for more than fifteen years and I'm about 10k words away from finishing the first book. I don't have the time I'd like to focus on this story.
Anyway, Bystander is sort of an urban fantasy, on the superhero side of things, most "peaks" live pretty much normal lives and work as lawyers, waiters, construction workers and so forth like any other person. The main character is Lucretia, no surname, an ex-con peak working as a librarian. She has the dubious distinction of so far being the world's only(or at least first) "official" supervillain since she had the bad luck to get drunk and see if she was strong enough to break a bank vault one night and the Government wanted to make an example to show that they could handle peaks fine (there was a counter example of a heroic "wereshark" who worked for the navy as a rescue diver...though she's not mentioned first book).
Lucretia is a quirky sort of character. She's got the Superman suite, but she's a lousy fighter unable to put much of her strength to good use and her extra visual senses get in the way of her favorite past time: reading history books and spy novels (yes, despite having very real troubles reading, it is her favorite thing). She's flirty, but is always wearing concealing dresses (granted, they tend to be very tight-fitting) and rarely if ever touches people. She's a street rat with lots of skill as a lock pick and pick pocket and going unnoticed in crowds and she has a immense talent with reading and manipulating people, but hasn't honed it much yet so she makes mistakes. She has much more power than she's aware of, but tends to succeed on her skills more than her powers.
The first book involves Lu interrupting a bank robbery (by sabotaging the bad guy's guns) and then several flashbacks showing her 3 years of parole leading up to that incident as the bank robbers turn out to be not your average criminals and decide for a bit of revenge. That's going to be the catalyst for people deciding that she's not just another "bystander" (superhuman not involved with any of the underground espionage Factions and not trying to do anything on their own) and start having various organizations try to acquire her for research. As the story progresses, I start getting into the "magical" background of the world setting (there are magicians and such, they just know what causes the superpowers to develop and work and are able to develop more versatile sets of abilities since they're consciously guiding the practice) and on to the eventual end game.
Here's the first chapter:
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/?56596#/d1g8iz0And some art (including some old, old, old versions when Lu had a tail and cat's eyes instead of being what she is now):
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/?56596#Bystander-Artmy favorite picture of her isn't up yet, but some key favorites are here:
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/?56596#/d143vajhttp://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/?56596#/d143s41http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/?56596#/d143rwyhttp://thrythlind.deviantart.com/gallery/?56596#/d143r9h