Books-in-Progress

To Town a Stranger Comes [working title]: I currently have a book coming out. It was a project between myself and another writer. He hired me to rewrite his manuscript, which was about 150 pages, or ~60,000 words. We’re finalizing details with the title and cover art, and I’m editing the final draft right now. —Nick, 2/12/2021

The Cat in the Adage: A fantasy novel I worked on extensively after high school. Back when people still used printers to edit manuscripts, and iMac G3s were popular. I still have all the drafts saved, so maybe I’ll resume work on it. Partly inspired by Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Myth: the Fallen Lords, the story had a lot of dark fantasy elements, but also a fair amount of sex. Here’s a concept piece I had drawn up of one of the characters from the story:

A concept drawing for a character from an unfinished fantasy novel by Nicholas van der Waard