My Fiction
Short Stories
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Debut Novel
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Resources
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Short Stories - Debut Novel - Resources -
“Rise of the Nomads”
YA Dystopian, 96,000 words
I’ve officially completed my debut YA novel! “Rise of the Nomads” is full of all the tropes I love - political intrigue, love triangle, “coming-of-rage” premise - along with some elements I longed to see in YA epics - steampunk-inspired world, a best friend who’s believable as a love interest, and true feminine rage.
Read about Ada Castille’s perilous cross-nation journey alongside three other renegades, all working for a national vigilante organization they can’t trust. Ada faces cyborg attacks, treacherous sky pirates, and pain from her past to reach the capital city. When survival challenges her own morals, Ada must confront her ruthless survival instincts before she mirrors the cruel system she’s trying to destroy… or die trying to escape her role in society.
Short Stories
Life, imagination, eerie, fantasy - it’s all free game in short fiction! That’s why I looove short stories so much - they’re a chance for my writing to run wild with any topic in any world. From bewitching sirens to back-home county roads, you’ll find a thousand different topics stuck in my 1-5 page stories.
Some of my all-time favorite short stories I’ve written so far:
“Loving the Weary Traveler”
“When Apathy Comes Knocking (It Will Come Back)”
“The Siren Wars”
“September’s Eve (The Ghost’s Warning)”
Is it really writing if you’re not thinking three steps ahead to the next stage? (authors, iykyk)
If that’s you, then this line might sound familiar…
“I’ve written my book! Now what?”
That’s exactly where I was when I finished writing and editing my debut YA novel, “Rise of the Nomads.” These free resources pulled back the curtain on where to start in the ever-elusive querying process. I bet they’ll help you too!
“Word Poetry” Collection
Too many funky, beautiful, haunting words lay buried in our English language. As a mind-freeing writing exercise (and a welcome break from bigger projects), I occasionally take one of these words and dive into its meaning. Sometimes the result is a fictional story with worlds I’ve never seen; other times, a memory or familiar feeling emerges from the emotions of an unfamiliar word.
Hence began my “Word Poetry” collection - eloquently named for the short poems dedicated to all the buried, whimsical words in the English language.
