My Writing
Novels
Boarder Patrol is available from Orca Sports (Spring 2010). Orca’s sports books are geared towards reluctant readers and feature athletics mixed with adventure. My character, Ryan, is an ambitious snowboarder who learns more than he wants to about crimes happening at his ski resort.
Draco’s Fire is a fantasy novel for the reluctant teen reader market. It is the third book in the Dragon Speaker trilogy, published by HIP Books in Fall 2009. Dragons and wizards and elves, oh my! These book are a reluctant reader’s introduction to the world of high fantasy.
- Book One: The Last Dragon, by Cheryl Rainfield begins Jacob’s journey when he discovers that his ability to mind-speak with birds makes him the ‘chosen one’ of prophecy.
- Book Two: A Hero’s Worth, by Deborah Ouellet continues Jacob’s growth as a hero as he, his dragon and his friends must save Lia, an elf, from a forced marriage to evil Lord Manning.
- Book Three: Draco’s Fire, by Erin Thomas brings Jacob’s story to a conclusion as he and his dragon work together to save their friends and finally defeat Lord Manning.
Short Stories
Visiting the Sun Princess, a YA short story in which a young girl with a secret tries to go to her anorexic older cousin for help, won third place in the 2009 WCDR Short Story Contest. Visiting can be read online here.
Julia, a sci-fi short story, will be published in the Fall 2009 issue of On Spec magazine. The original, much-shorter seed from which this story grew, Daughters, was a first-round winner in the 2008 NYC Midnight Short Story Contest.