Hee! I knew it was you. And now I want some!

yeah, that's me, leaving a trail of salt chocolates throughout the interwebs.

Tauntypants.

better than easter eggs.

Mmm, Easter eggs.

That's very cool about the YA proposal, Barb!

That sounds great, Barb.

I have been reading a variety of paranormalish books recently, and they almost all seem to involve an increasingly powerful protagonist, politics, conspiracy, sex and the end of the world. Is there a market for something more whimsical, like a book titled something like A Rumor of Trolls? I have an Idea.

Know nothing of fiction markets, but intriguing title.

Is is for kids, Ginger?

There's definitely stuff out there with paranormal aspects that aren't end-of-world, but they still have high stakes for the protagonist *or* they lean toward the funny. Nova Ren Suma's forthcoming Imaginary Girls is an example, or Sarah Mlynowski's Bras and Broomsticks series. Also something like Brenna Yovanoff's The Replacement, which is more horror than big paranormal epic.

I'll look those up, Amy. It's not so much that I want to write to the market as to whether there's a market at all.

I'm thinking adult, since the protagonist has to old enough to have freedom of action and a car. The basic idea is what happened between Puck of Pook's Hill, when the Fair Folk fled England, and Clifford Simak's Goblin Reservation, in which the trolls, goblins, banshees and the like are protected on a reservation. Our heroine inherits the job of protecting the last remaining old ones, along with a groundskeeper who may or may not be Puck. She researches odd phenomena looking for these remnants. The stories could include finding and saving them; using their powers to help others; and killing the ones who are dangerous. In the meantime, the house and grounds she inherited are full of squabbling pixies, house hobs who disagree about housekeeping, trolls who keep building bridges, and so on.

The POV character could be a kid who helps the protagonist if you wanted to aim it younger.