With Corelle’s journey all but completed, Hayley will turn her attention to a new project in the second half of 2025. She currently has three projects begun, and has decided to let her friends and readers choose which one she will work on first.

On this page, you will find three brief pitches, one for each of the books. All you have to do is decide which one you’re most keen to read first and vote for it. Subject to the requirements being met (see the Ts and Cs for the poll below), Hayley will start work on the winning book before the year’s end. To read about each of the books, just expand the description of each using the ‘+’ icon.

One entrant will be chosen at random, and that lucky person will be written into that book as a cameo side character. You will need to leave us your email address so we can contact you afterwards, and you might consider signing up for Hayley’s short monthly newsletter, but that’s not compulsory.

Good luck to everybody who votes, and let’s see which book proves the most desirable.

Read the Ts and Cs for the poll here

  • A cozy sapphic urban fantasy rom-com in which an ethereal creature takes human form to carry out a vital task for her people. When a widow offers to help her, the pair develop a warm friendship. That friendship turns into something much deeper; something neither of them expected or is prepared for.

  • A more traditional fantasy. Jen lives a simple life, but when she falls for Dynnah, she ends up on the run from authorities. When the creatures Jen has always believed were the humans’ enemies show her the truth, she learns her life is only a single thread in a tapestry spread across two planes and involving two wars. When she meets her sister and discovers her true history, she comes close to starting a third war in her efforts to right eons of wrongs.

  • A comic swords and sorcery novel. A mismatched group of bumbling ne’er-do-wells set out to find a mysterious artefact and return a ruler to the throne. As they battle hideous monsters, nasty villains, unspeakable adversity, and outrageously cryptic clues, their fate becomes bound up with the future of their land. If the land had a choice, these idiots would be the last people it would pick to save it from the evil bad guy.