Contemporary Literary Fiction:
Divide by Zero: The quiet subdivisions of Paradise offer Troy and his family a chance to repair their lives after his father's departure and sudden return. They meet the locals. They build new lives. Children are born. Teenage girls rush through the park after dark. And Troy’s new sister-in-law obsesses about guardian angel cats. When a child is killed, it falls to another wounded child, Troy’s son, to offer the whole community a second chance. An ABNA 2009 quarter-finalist, just accepted for publication by StoneGarden.net Publishing
Infinite Sum:
A young girl approaching her teenage years, a new mother wondering at
the life held in her arms, and a middle-aged women eying the empty nest:
What they all have in common is they’re the same person, and something
happened to change everything back when she was young.
Still, it’s somebody else’s secret she thinks; it’s not till Sylvia (from Divide by Zero) forgives herself, even though she’s not guilty, that she learns to claim
her secrets as her own. Shadows of the past don’t have to define her
after all, and she's more than the sum of events that have happened to her.
Novellas and Novellettes:
Nalya's Sunset: Kol’s friend Nalya is blind, and childhood attraction is just transforming into love when a devastating storm brings death and destruction raining on their fast-grain farm. The two children grow up too fast, Kol working with grain and Nalya leaving for town. But eventually Kol learns it's not always the sighted who see most clearly. Nalya returns bringing with her a love as pure and enduring as the sunset sky.
Rose on the Vine: Can ghosts of the future haunt the past? And if so, how will we appease them? When Emma falls victim to their house's gruesome mystery, Joe lands in jail. Meanwhile local children Dan and Jess make the mistake of drawing too close. But in the end, Jess's girlfriend helps bring the story full-circle to a place where roses bloom.
Refracted: Available as an e-book from Gypsy Shadow Publishing: The story of a man who gets lost in time and can't remember what he's looking for.
Black Widow: Available as an e-book from Gypsy Shadow Publishing: The history of Boudicca's Britain meets the legend of the Holy Grail.
Flower Child: Available as an e-book from Gypsy Shadow Publishing: The curious relationship between a grieving mother and her unborn child.
Mysteries:
Obituaries: When David Elson sees his mother's obituary online while talking to her on the phone, it's not surprising that he's slightly dismayed. But soon his computer's conveying more tales of fictional murder and mayhem, while his girlfriend's machine stays violence-free and his mother writes gardening articles for the paper. As reality and computer-reality diverge, David finds himself wondering what's real and what's imaginary, but the key lies buried in that first, long-lost obituary, and his mother’s cause of death. (With thanks to Pat Bertram and Second Wind Publishing for permission to use the initial idea from Pat Bertram's book, More Deaths than One.) A textnovel 2009 entry.
Resurrections: Just started: The tall, dark, handsome genius, Simon Tipton, never expected to fall for short and dumpy Elsie Sloan. But dead pastors, stolen identities, and long-lost family members weren't part of his plan either.
Short stories:
Click here to read about my short stories in print.
Click here to enjoy my short stories published online.
Middle-grade novels:
Hemlock Edge: Four children learn to do magic in their dreams, then witches try to kill them and wizards try to take them away to school.
Hemlock Bees: It's time for the children to learn what they can and can't do as mages, but no-one's sure if the bees are there to help them or destroy them.
More Hemlock books coming soon...
Children's books:
David goes to school: An excitable kindergartner learns where food comes from, how to push a friend's wheelchair, and how to be a walking disaster in this set of children's stories.
David learns his Numbers: David's in first grade now and starts learning to count and work with numbers.
Picture Books:
Tom's Dog and other pets: A set of picture books highlighting children's emotions and how to read other people's emotions.
Plus:
What IF...Stories: Inspired by Faith and Science.
Click here for my Bible stories, available from Lulu.com.
What IF...Studies: Inspired by Faith and Science
Click here for my Bible studies (more coming soon), available from Lulu.com.
