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 So far, they're unpublished.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
An adventure for middle-grade readers
Old secret agents don't die, they just never say never again.
Thirteen-year-old Tom Lincoln has the awesomest secret friends ever: two debonair ghosts who haunt his attic and teach him skills like jiu-jitsu and fencing. At least, he thought the ghosts were awesome - until his best pal went missing, he caught his school's Audio-Visual crew building a satellite transmitter in the shop wing, and the ghosts made him promise to pretend none of it ever happened.
The only people who will help Tom investigate all the weird stuff going on are his geeky brother, Marty, and Rayna Dervish, the girl who is to Tom's ego what dentist drills are to teeth. With their help, Tom discovers his phantasmic mentors were once secret agents. They were killed fighting Dr. Shade, an evil mastermind who had based a murderous plot in Tom's middle school. Shade was thought to have died in that encounter, too, but it looks like someone's picking up where he left off. Unless Tom can stop whoever's revived Shade's plan, millions will die. But are the closed-mouth ghosts trying to help or hinder him? And why? As he struggles to stay one step ahead of AV minions, Tom has got to find out what really happened the day Shade disappeared... or he and his friends will be dead before they can say "boo."