Books!
I love to write. I have a document that is just one-hundred pages of ideas for short stories and novels. It's pretty insane! It has been my dream since I was young to be a published author and here, I have listed my current projects. If you are interested in representing any of these novels, please let me know, as I am currently seeking a literary agent. I also host a podcast called 'Fighting for Writing' that is all about writing and my journey to becoming an author. You can find the link in the linktree in the upper right corner! Thank you and please enjoy!
Elton has spent her entire childhood living on her family farm with her Ma, her Pa, and her beloved pet pig, Leonard. In her short life, Elton has only experienced tragedy once before—when her older brother, Johnny, passed away. She is still trying to fill his shoes and knows that one day she will stand just as tall and be just as strong as Johnny; she must if she wants the farm to survive. But when a drought strikes Elton’s world, her will to endure and keep her family farm afloat is put to the test. If she and her family cannot survive the changing world around them, she may lose everything that she holds dear to her: her farm, her Ma, her Pa, Leonard, and even herself.
Bring with You the Rains
Told through an alternating third person omniscient view and the first-person view of Elton herself, Bring with You the Rains allows you to step into Elton’s whimsical and fantastical thoughts, as well as gain the knowledge of the brutal world unfolding around her.
***Currently paused querying agents for this manuscript! Still hoping to find one!***
Stats: literary fiction; family saga; 137,500 words
Tommy Recluse and Jonathan Brown have one thing in common—they were both killed by the same woman. Well, make that two things. Tommy and Jonathan are now stuck watching the woman who killed them begin the grooming of her next victim and the problem is that no matter how loud they yell or how much they dance in front of the other man’s face, he can neither hear nor see them. Tommy, overbearing and accepting of his death, and Jonathan, quiet and still coming to terms with his death, must now work together to somehow stop the Black Widow from striking again. For if they do not save the life of the man they have never met, and he is offed, he will become the third wheel in their already awkward ghost detective partnership.
***Currently querying agents for this manuscript! Hoping to find one!***
Stats: Crime, Drama; 93,000 words
Black Widow
Terra Suda
THEN
All that Ezra wants to be is like his older brother, Charlie. Charlie is an adventurer—a man who once he stepped on a ship and started seeing the world, never wanted to stop. As a child, Ezra sits in front of the large window at his home waiting to see the lights of Charlie’s ship coming back to him, because Charlie always comes back to Ezra no matter how long he is gone.
Until that one time that he does not.
Charlie leaves to find the mythical southern land of Terra Suda, the land that must exist in the south to balance out the lands of the north. Ezra waits and waits for Charlie to come home, but he never does, and when pieces of Charlie’s ship wash up on shore, everyone tells Ezra that Charlie is dead. Ezra doesn't believe them though; Ezra knows that Charlie could never die, that Charlie would always come back to him, and so Ezra, though young, begins his journey to go and find Charlie and save him himself. To do this, Ezra realizes that he too must travel past the known world and into the southern lands, for that is where Charlie must be. Charlie must have discovered Terra Suda and be stranded there. And Ezra is going to rescue him
Cut to NOW
Ezra is a grown man, an alcoholic with a reputation for scaring children away from his property and talking to his older brother Charlie, who no one else can see because everyone else knows he is dead.
Oh, and Ezra hates Charlie. He hates him with a passion. He wishes that he could kill him, but he cannot, because Charlie is not there and Ezra is now the town crazy everyone seeks to avoid.
In these two stories that wind together—the Ezra of THEN and the Ezra of NOW—readers follow Ezra’s journey as a young innocent boy to learning the truth about Charlie and becoming a man caught in a loop of alcoholism and self-destruction, a loop that although deadly, Ezra is trying to break free from.
***Finished and in the editing process***
Stats: adventure; literary; sibling story; 304,400 words
AFtermath
In Volsen, there is no need to lock your doors at night, or park your car in the garage. No one tries to break in and no one will steal your car no matter how fancy and chic it is. But then Heather Sinclair is murdered by her own son, Michael, who takes his own life after slaying his mother. This story is not a who done it story—the perpetrator was clearly Michael. This story is not a why story, no one will ever know why because both Michael and Heather are gone. This is a story of the aftermath of a brutal murder and how it ripples out into the innocent society in which it takes place.
Tommy is a ten-year-old boy; Michael was his friend who showed him how to do everything from climbing trees to shooting a bow and arrow. Tommy used to love to ride his bike around town, but now his mother doesn’t even want him to leave the house. His mother used to be nice and never yell, but now she is angry if Tommy comes home even a minute late, and Tommy cannot understand why Michael would kill his mother, and himself, and leave him all alone.
Emma is a high schooler. Her younger brother, Adam, is mentally handicapped and deaf. Besides her, only Doherty Sinclair, Michael’s father, knows sign language at the school. Emma tries to help her brother as he struggles to comprehend why he can no longer attend school, why his friend Mr. Sinclair has left him, and why life is suddenly 'crying like babies’ his expression for weird.
Peppered throughout with police records, coroner’s reports and the gossip of the local town, this is a story about humanity trying to hold together and also turning its back on people in their hardest hour. You may have once left your door open in Volsen, but now you’ll want to lock it for sure.
***Currently in the editing process. To be honest, I hate editing, but it is a necessary evil***
Stats: crime; literary; 79,000 words
Don't Breathe
Mill, Sue, Theo, Bobby and James all live in a town where exactly nothing ever happens. And that is this story. This is a story of five children raised in a small community that no one ever seems to be able to escape from: their parents (besides James who is an outsider from a big city) lived there, their grandparents lived there and apparently, they are also doomed to live their lives in nothingness as well.
Starting from the time Mill, Sue, Theo, Bobby and James begin school and following them up into the beginning of their adult lives, Don’t Breathe, focuses on how friendships develop, change, break, mend and how sometimes a pattern of living can never really be broken.
***Finished and in the editing process***
Stats: literary fiction; slice of life type novel; 118,500 words
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Sea and Bo are siblings, but they are no ordinary siblings, they are the children of the Devil. Yes, the Devil—Satan, Lucifer, the Morning Star, the Serpent, the Devil. As children they were the closest that siblings could ever be, causing mischief together down in their father’s palace in Hell. Now that they are grown though, they could not be any more different from each other. Sea is wracked with guilt at all the pain and suffering her father has caused in the world and as such has come to the conclusion that to end all of it, she must kill her father. Bo too wishes to slay his father, but not because he feels the world needs to be rid of the Devil, oh no, Bo seeks to kill his father because he believes that the powers of Hell and his father’s throne rightly belong to him and no one else.
Caught in between the warring siblings is Erik, a mortal boy whom the Devil adopted when he was a child and raised on earth to do his bidding there. Erik wishes to be free of the chains of his Master, and yet cannot bring himself to leave the man who saved him from starvation as a lonely child of the streets. When Erik intervenes in Sea’s search to find a way to kill her father, he is inadvertently dragged down to Hell with her and must learn to survive in a world that is constantly trying to destroy him. He must also decide where his allegiances lie: with the Master who saved him, with the daughter who is trying to kill his Master, or with the son who if he rises to power will replace his Master and may unleash Hell on earth.
This is the first novel I ever wrote, and though it needs work, I am still so proud of it. I love the characters; I love the story. Their story still sticks with me and I think about them often. One day, I am hoping that this will be a trilogy. The first book needs work as I already said, the second one is currently all over the place, and the third one, well, I know exactly how I want this to end, I just have to get there first.
Stats: fantasy; 115,000 words