Upcoming Works

Electing Choi
A sequel to my new novel, Inventing Vazquez. The first novel is a satire about Latinos in cinema. This one is a satire about Presidential elections. What happens when two promising Presidential candidates drive a wedge between Liliana and her closest friends? Well, let's just say, some folks are sleeping on the sofa, while others think of a way to bring everyone back together.

Suicide Girls (working title)
A dark comedy road trip narrative about two young women who decide they want to kill themselves. One thinks they should just jump off the roof of their work building so that their departments can get the rest of the day off. The other hates her department and doesn't want to give them that pleasure, preferring instead to take a trip to San Francisco and go 'jump jump, splat splat' from the Golden Gate Bridge. So begins a wild, whimsical journey of self-discovery. Yes, this one will be demented, but ultimately life-affirming, so don't send me angry e-mails just yet ^_^

The Mourning Syndrome
I give myself time off between drafts of novels. So when I finished the first draft of Inventing Vazquez, I started work on my next novel, The Mourning Syndrome. A mixture of supernatural horror and science fiction, this novel centers around an amnesiac novelist, Maria Gonzalez, who realizes her cryptic novels seem to be encoded memories. Memories of a horrible trauma that may be related to the sudden outbreak of something called the Mourning Syndrome--an strange illness that is slowly wiping out the world's populations in a series of bizarre mass suicides. In other words, it's a really happy story ^_^

Solstice Spin-offs and Such
Way down the line, I expect to do more with the Scribe vs. Editor universe created in Solstice. I've long thought of doing a prequel that deals with Io's pursuit of the Scribe Poinsettia, but now I'm contemplating doing a sequel. Yes, a sequel. And in light of some of the very encouraging feedback I've gotten for Solstice, I'm also thinking of expanding that universe and creating more stories about this clandestine struggle between Scribes and the Editors that monitor them.