Since the age of eleven, I've been writing fantasy novels for young readers. So far, they're unpublished. So be the first to take a look at them here!
Bad Light
A fantasy/mystery for young adults
Bad Light is a reworking of Shakespeare's Macbeth, told through the story of fourteen-year-old Karen Crowley. In Karen’s world, elementology has evolved from medieval magic to twenty-first-century science. While modern Air, Earth, and Water marshals research sustainable energy and new farming techniques, most Fire marshals work for military R&D – and would rather invent new ways to master nature than help people or the planet. Karen hates her talent for Fire and would rather die than give up her real passion: acting. But when her parents send her to an elementology-enriched high school with no theatre program, she has no choice.
Determined to be a drama star, not a bomb-designing drone, Karen rebels by starting her own production of Macbeth. But for actors, she’s stuck with her fellow “Burnsies”, selfish bullies who fit the Fire stereotype to a T. As Karen struggles to rehearse the story of the Thane who butchered his way to the throne, a murderous arsonist targets contenders for the school’s top prize. The evidence points to one of her cast. Now Karen must use her stage smarts to figure out how deserved Fire’s reputation really is – and what she’ll do if nabbing the culprit means giving up her theatre dreams.
Our Man Tom
A fantasy/mystery for middle-grade readers
Old secret agents don't die, they just never say never again.
Thirteen-year-old Tom Lincoln learns karate moves and lock-picking tricks from the two debonair ghosts who inhabit his attic. He doesn’t mind that they won’t tell him anything about their lives - until his best friend disappears, and the ghosts seem to know something about it that they won’t share. Now his school's audio-visual crew is building a satellite transmitter in the shop wing, the principal’s acting weird, and the only people who will help Tom investigate are his tech-geek brother, Marty, and Rayna Dervish, the girl who is to Tom’s ego what dentist drills are to teeth.
When Tom, Marty, and Rayna uncover a murderous plot afoot at their middle school, Tom learns his phantasmic mentors haven’t been telling the whole truth. The two ghosts used to be secret agents, killed in the line of duty at the local school where their nemesis, Dr. Shade, hid his headquarters. Now it looks like Shade’s back in business and gunning for blood. To stop Shade’s deadly plan, Tom will have to find out what really happened the day the ghosts died - before their past comes back to haunt him and his friends.