Sherry D. Ramsey

nanowrimo

The challenge of National Novel Writing Month is simple: write a fifty-thousand word novel, from scratch, between November 1st and November 30th.

Now, wait a second. I didn't say doing it was simple, I said the idea was simple. Difficulty notwithstanding, however, I'm happy to say that this year I'm working on novel number six...

When majick finally comes to the planet of D'sharu, teetering on the brink of its own space race, more than a few lives are thrown into disarray. At the center of the chaos are a boy whose head is suddenly full of words he doesn't understand, a young woman who might finally understand her urge to wear black and cook strange things in cauldrons, and a man who has no idea why people keep telling him he's the Technocrat Avatar. The situation isn't improved by all the members of the Majick Concordance who want a piece of the power. One thing is certain--when majick and technology mix, it's an explosive combination. The question is, who will be left standing after the dust clears?

Kit Stablefield was just a mercenary with a secret and a crush on a guy she knew only online, in a future where magic was a part of everyday life. But when Aleshu Coro walked into the offices of Darcko and Sadatake with a message from the Murder Prophet and fourteen days to live, everything changed. Suddenly Kit was questioning the decisions of her past all over again, trying to find out if the man she loved was in fact a man, and on the hunt to stop a murderer from striking and a mysterious seer from abusing his or her power. With her eighty-six-year-old grandmother insisting on helping out and a talking goose who simply won't stop pestering her to watch his "killer" video game moves, Kit's got more than her hands full as she races against the clock to prevent a murder...possibly her own.

Rosinda was happy enough living with her Aunt Odder temporarily, although her missing memories worried her...a lot. It was almost a relief to find out that the explanation was more complicated than she'd thought. The relief didn't last long, however, once she realized the danger that her parents--and everyone else in her homeland--now faced. And the animals kept insisting that she had to do something about that...

NaNoWriMo 2004: Operant Moon

Luta Paixon and the crew of the Tane Ikai have enough trouble on their hands just now, trying to deal with the problems of two captains on one ship, various romantic upheavals, and the revelation that one of their crewmates is a benevolent spy. But things can always get worse. When an alien artifact, the remnant of a long-ago war, shows up on the other side of a newly-discovered wormhole, they find themselves pressed into the service of the Nearspace Protectorate. The Protectorate wants the discovery kept secret, so the Tane Ikai must covertly deliver a Lobor historian to the site to try and decipher its meaning and possible threat. When a mysterious attack leaves them stranded in the uncharted new system, however, Luta and her crew must rely on their wits to stay alive and discover what it is that their old enemies are so afraid of...

When Luta Paixon, captain of the merchant trader Tane Ikai, looked in the mirror, she saw a woman in her thirties--even though she was actually eighty-two. Luta's only explanation might lie with the mother who had disappeared over sixty years ago. But even if her mother were still alive, it would be no small task to track her down in the vast, wormhole-ridden expanse of Nearspace. With the ruthless PrimeCorp bent on obtaining Luta's DNA at any cost, her ninety-year-old husband asking for one last favor, and her estranged daughter locking horns with her at every turn, Luta's search for answers will take her to the farthest reaches of space--and deep inside her own heart.

In a future where genetic degradation has reduced the male population to only five percent of the total, fertile males are prized as research subjects and breeding partners. There's unrest, however, as men begin to resent the bonds of society and start to form their own Freemen colonies. The radical X/Alt group wants to see the end of all research aimed at restoring the male genome, and in Rome, the last male Pope uncovers a secret that will either drive him mad or rock the Catholic Church to its foundations.