Hi! I’m Lindsay Smith, an analyst and Russophile who reads and writes obsessively in Washington, DC. I write stories of the fantastical, historical, and surreal for both adults and YA. I am repesented by Weronika Janczuk of Lynn C. Franklin Associates.

SEKRET ya historical/paranormal

78,000 words. I’d tell you what it’s about, but … you know the drill.

 

UNDER A DEAD MOON fantasy
The Shadowed Gates, Book 1

107,000 words. A cocky young sorceress turns to the same forbidden magic threatening her kingdom in a dangerous attempt to save it.

cover is not at all a real thing

 

ACROSS THE BLOODIED SANDS fantasy
The Shadowed Gates, Book 2

Outlining. Continuing adventures of the necromancer Fierine.

 

 

GHOSTS OF GRIMLEY ya paranormal

55,000 words. Ghosts, spiritualists, and Lovecraftian horrors at a New England boarding school. Under revision.

 

ZEITGEIST contemporary/sci-fi/paranormal

60,000 words. An OCD astrophysicist must understand the ghosts who plague him to rescue his TV star daughter from the alien-worshiping death cult she tried to leave. Rewriting.

 

PROTOCOL ya paranormal/psychological thriller

70,000 words. Alan wants a normal life out of the shadow of his Internet goth celebrity parents, but his new friend shows him his “normal” is anything but. Rewriting.