Bio
Where I'm Coming From
I've got a dirt track mind. That is the way that I would describe. Seldom do I have a time in my life where I see a clear straight line to something. A twisting, never ending dirt track. And now I sound a bit crazy but...well, okay that's true.
I'm the youngest of six children. I live in Portland, OR now but spent my entire life travelling the US with my family.
What I'm Working With
I have been writing since I was ten years old. My whole life was spent with a pen in hand just exploring the spaces between people and places. The distances that are innate and the ones that we create ourselves as protection.
I am so happy to share now what I closely guarded growing up. This was and is my escape to something else, something other.
What I Do
You'll find that most of my work is geared toward the young adult genre but I have been stretching or rather attempting to stretch out into the general fiction arena. It's all exciting and challenging and oh so enjoyable.
"Writing is a struggling against silence."
YA Novels
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Article 1
Arienne and Violet have just lost their parents, their home and their whole world has been flipped upside down with the ring of a phone.Now they must pack up everything and leave for a new life far away. But something unexpected happens. Something that will lead the two girls down a very different path fraught with dangers and triumphs.How much would they give up to have everything they ever wanted?
Article 2
INTERSTITIAL
Interstitial - The place that exists between two states. The world is a minefield built for destruction. Like a drunken reveller stumbling into traffic, too numb to hear his own death barreling toward him, the world stands on the very brink of ruin.Biodes are given to the world as the last bastion of hope. The last and only saving grace that mankind has. Controversy rages as the Biodes, a complex nano-machine rebuilds the sick and the dying and shapes the future. Who or what created these things and why, after all this time can no one stop their virulent spread into healthy human beings. Enter the Clover Hill School for gifted children and a strange new student that started half way through the semester. She has been exposed; you can see it in the way that she never meetsanyone's gaze, even in the way that she sits perfectly still with eyes fixed on the chalkboard through even the most tedious classes. Yes, she definitely knows more than she is saying about Biodes. She holds the key to a verydark and dangerous door that is about to be opened.
About
Mercy
Avery is a girl with a talent for seeing the truth in the things and people that fill her small world. From the glittering wings spreading like clouds from her mother's back as she makes her way around the kitchen. She can see through to the heart's deepest desire. Is her talent a gift or the signs of something more insidious happening to her fragile mind? The world is thrown into turmoil as the child of her mother's oldest friend, escaping from a difficult family life, comes to stay for the summer. Avery is compelled to hide the visions of Mercy from her parents and from herself. She throws up walls to protect her cherished kingdom but the progression of youth into adulthood threatens to overthrow it.Can the imagined take root in reality? Can those who blend them survive the mental and spiritual torments that this question brings about?
Article 3
Bumps and Bruises
Growing up in Hershey Pennsylvania is enough to make you hate chocolate. It's enough tomake you hate everything. Everything but that first love. The one that seizes your still beating heart in its teeth and won't let go no matter how much it hurts you. She loved him. He loved her. They hated each other. They were in love.This is a story of why and how people fall in love when they shouldn't and stay in love when it is killing them....
