NOVELS IN PROGRESS

A GUIDE TO THE HIDEOUS DAMSELS

WIP Young Adult Novel, Magical Realism

A pandemic is sweeping across the globe, turning girls and women into deadly monsters. Ariana Donatella is the battle-scarred 17-year-old who understands what makes them tick, because her best friend gave her a detailed guidebook before vanishing seven years earlier. When Ariana finds herself institutionalized in a remote research facility filled with other Damsels, she must decide if she can trust these incubating monsters enough to share the information she's learned in order to defend them from those hoping to exploit and weaponize them.

THE CURANDERA

Adult Romantic Comedy/Magical Realism

A career-focused young woman finds herself inexplicably drawn to a distillery in the remote Arizona desert filled with puzzling mysteries and strange residents who seem to possess magical powers.

THE DREAMERY

Young Adult Sci-Fi, 85K-word completed draft in revision

An emotionally-wounded girl with vivid, creative dreams is recruited to have her dreams recorded by a Dreaming Entertainment Company, catapulting her to fame, but destroying her sanity in the process.