Novels
title: ONCE THE DARKNESS COMES
series: Dream in Black (epic trilogy)
tagline: Don’t sleep.
genre: post-apocalyptic horror
word count: 116,000
stage in progress: seeking representation
setting: near future, U.S.
description: In a dark world overrun by blind Sleepers, Adrian Black, a responsible young funeral director who hears voices, must face her fears to travel up the east coast in search of light, other survivors, and hope.
title: SCARCLIFF
series: The Eadgar Family Saga
genre: gothic
word count: 88,000
stage in progress: revising
setting: 1603, the south of France
description: Isolated in the Castle Scarcliff with her grandfather, John the Mad, Adelaide uncovers the haunting mysteries and twisted secrets of her family’s past — and who she really is.
title: THE ECHOING
genre: horror (zombie)
word count: 103,000
stage in progress: temporarily trunked/awaiting revisions
setting: 2013, Lake City, Colorado
description: County sheriff Bruce Granville, his niece Jen, and out-of-towner Nick Tomlinson band together to fight a virus that turns people into echoes of who they used to be.
title: MEADOW OF EDEN
genre: literary
word count: ~65,000
stage in progress: slow-drafting
setting: present day, unidentified beach
description: During the night, Morgan slips from her family’s beach house to wander the shore, where beautiful singing draws her to an unexpected field of green in the middle of the sand dunes… and Eve.
title: ST. GEORGE’S EVE
genre: literary horror
word count: 49,000
stage in progress: permanently trunked
setting: present day, rural Transylvania (Romania)
description: Cici, a blind eleven-year-old, loses her mother. As her father descends into uselessness, Cici is forced to confront a psychopath who thinks he’s a vampire.
Nonfiction
title: Homo vampirus: Evolution of the Vampire
genre: commercial (creative nonfiction)
word count: TBD
stage in progress: brainstorming
description: A biology textbook explaining the evolution of Homo vampirus and their many (predominately extinct) subspecies.
Short Stories
title: THE GRIEF MACHINES
genre: literary
word count: 7,000
stage in progress: seeking publication
title: A SINGLE BALLOON
genre: literary
word count: 6,500
stage in progress: seeking publication
title: THE REDS
genre: dark fantasy
word count: 4,000
stage in progress: seeking publication
title: PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE
genre: psychological horror
word count: 4,500
stage in progress: seeking publication
title: THE LIGHTHOUSE
genre: dark literary
word count: 6,000
stage in progress: seeking publication
title: DEALING IN SHADOWS
genre: speculative
word count: 7,000
stage in progress: seeking publication
title: HONEY
genre: absurdist horror
word count: 2,000
stage in progress: seeking publication
title: ZANDERS THE MAGNIFICENT
genre: horror/weird tale
word count: ~2,000
stage in progress: drafting
title: AMPHIBIA
genre: horror
word count: ~3,000
stage in progress: drafting
Poetry Manuscripts
title: HOPE AND OTHER SINS
pages: 60
stage in progress: seeking publication
description: collection of literary poetry
title: THE ALCOHOLIC’S DAUGHTER
pages: 61
stage in progress: seeking publication
description: memoir of my relationship with my dad
title: STALKING LOVELY
pages: 60
stage in progress: editing
description: collection of horror poetry
title: THE YEAR THE SKY BLED
pages: 52
stage in progress: drafting
description: narrative collection of gritty urban fantasy
title: METAPOETRY
pages: 22
stage in progress: editing
description: chapbook of poetry about poetry
Picture Books
title: I CAN COMBINE ANYTHING, CAN YOU?
genre: early reader/coloring book
word count: 200
stage in progress: seeking representation/publication
description: Meet Elephanoctopus, Pironaut, Kitterfly, and Mousipede – a few of the crazy characters born of a playful challenge.
title: MR. McCHRONIKER’S CLOCKS
genre: fable/folktale
word count: 800
stage in progress: seeking representation/publication
description: Mr. McChroniker collects clocks; they fill his walls from bottoms to tops. All of the spaces are packed, but one, still left in the center—empty, undone.
title: TUMBLEWOOD
genre: (soft) horror
word count: 350
stage in progress: seeking representation/publication
description: There is a darkened neighborhood, far beyond the place of Good, where little nervous feet will take you down a street called Tumblewood.
title: JACK AND THE BAD MAN
genre: (soft) horror
word count: 1,500
stage in progress: published as short story, seeking representation/publication as book
description: Most of the year, Jack was a fine enough boy.
title: THE SOFT KITTEN
genre: mainstream early reader
word count: 125
stage in progress: editing
title: ANNIE, STAN, AND THE CEILING FAN
genre: fantasy
word count: ~3,000
stage in progress: brainstorming/drafting
title: TOO MANY PENGUINS
genre: commercial
word count: ~2,000
stage in progress: drafting
