Teaser Tuesday: The New Book

I mentioned last week that Taking the Gardener is on submission with publishers. In a situation like this, it might be tempting to sit around refreshing your inbox every five minutes just in case, but I've found that starting a new project is more productive. Only in my case, I'm starting two new projects. I guess that means I'm twice as productive? (There's a nice idea.)Project #1, currently untitled, is an urban fantasy novel that is about as different from Taking the Gardener as a book could be. Here's a brief teaser from the first chapter:

Audrey would never have suspected that becoming a vampire’s servant would be so boring.The office they had told her to come to was a modest affair, sandwiched between a newsagents on one side and a bookie’s on the other. There was no sign outside, nothing to suggest that the offices contained anything more exciting than an architectural studio or a  small accountancy firm.Although the accountancy firm might have been more interesting, all things considered.“Hello?” Audrey waved to get the receptionist’s attention. “I don’t mean to be rude, but I’ve been sitting here for over an hour, and my appointment was for five.”The woman behind the front desk glanced up from her computer briefly, shook her head and went back to whatever it was she had been doing since Audrey walked in. Playing solitaire, maybe.There was nothing in the waiting room to occupy her attention, no magazines or TV or even a bunch of cheap paintings on the walls. She was starting to wonder if this was their way of testing her reaction to intense boredom when a man opened the door beside the reception desk.“Ah, Ms. Jackson?” he said, glancing down at a sheet of paper in his hands. “Sorry to keep you waiting. If you’d like to come inside, we can get started.”

Exciting stuff, eh? Well, not really, but I don't want to give away too much. Look out for a teaser from the other project next week!