I e-mailed a new book to my agent yes­ter­day. Well, not really new. It’s called You Only Spy Twice and is the sec­ond book in my pro­posed urban fan­tasy series about Abby Tome, a Druid and book­store owner who’s forced to become a spy to stop some mag­i­cal terrorists.

I’ve been work­ing on the book since last sum­mer and had about 87,000 words. My agent wanted to see some pages, so I kicked it into high gear and fin­ished the whole thing so I could have a break for the RT con­ven­tion. Final word count: 98,000 and change.

My agent also wanted a bunch of syn­opsi for var­i­ous projects we’ve been talk­ing about. In addi­tion to fin­ish­ing You Only Spy Twice, in the past two weeks, I’ve also written:

1) Spy 2 syn­op­sis — titled You Only Spy Twice

2) Spy 3 syn­op­sis — titled A Spy Never Dies

3) Assas­sin 2 syn­op­sis — titled Gin With A Twist

4) Heist syn­sopis — titled The South­ern Cross Affair (about a group of Robin Hood-like thieves who steal from the rich and give to the poor)

I’d guess this all adds up to about 25,000 words total. Whew! My wrist needs a break before it, you know, actu­ally breaks. :bubbles:

Now, my goal is to decide what I want to write next, while I wait for my agent to read and for other stuff to hap­pen. I’m lean­ing toward Assas­sin 2 or Heist, although there’s one prob­lem with Heist – I haven’t come up with a super­cool way to do my actual heist yet.

Plus, I have two more ideas — a South­ern roman­tic com­edy about a high school reunion and assorted hijinks. That one’s called Do Me Over. Then, I have an idea for (yet) another urban­ish fan­tasy titled Charm Queen. That one would have an Old West vibe crossed with fairy tales.

Argh! Too many ideas, too lit­tle time … What would you guys be inter­ested in read­ing from me (or in gen­eral)? More fan­tasy or some­thing else?