What does the future hold? Hopefully, more publications. Here's a taste of things (maybe) to come:
A prequel to The Eye of Night, titled The Ghost-Bearers, is already written. In the meantime, my agent retired & Bantam restructured, so I don't know when it will be published, or by whom. In The Ghost-Bearers, a young man doomed to carry the spirits of the restless dead travels to a foreign land to free his nephew from slavery. He makes common cause with a woman almost as haunted as himself, carrying a harp made by necromancy from the bones of her husband. Can they rise above their past regrets to unseat a tyrant and break a blight on the land?
After serving on the Mythopoeic Society's committee to select the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in the category for younger readers, I decided that the Young Adult authors were having all the fun. I've begun work on a couple of Young Adult novels: Dancing with Zoya, about a cursed actor and a dancing bear; and Doubly Grounded, about a wizard-in-training who learns that her parents broke the ultimate taboo in her society -- wizards must not breed with wizards -- and that she must pay the price for their transgression.
I'm always marketing a few short stories and looking for anthologies I can write for. Hot topics for me right now include global warming, faith and doubt, revisionist fairy-tales, superheroes, parenthood, translation problems, dragons, cats, and animals in general.