Projects
Secrets, Sisters, and Other Volatile Things
Secrets, Sisters, and Other Volatile Things is a young adult novel. Sisters Kate and Bea must navigate their fraught but loving relationship, the absence of their parents, financial and social hardships, demands of work and school, and their complicated and deepening feelings for the unique and determined boys who overcome their formidable defenses and lodge themselves in Kate and Bea’s hearts. As they betray and support each other and themselves, Kate and Bea learn to set their assumptions and expectations aside, and see each other for the people they are becoming, rather than the adolescents they’ve been.
Color of Gravity
Jaded by having grown up in her family’s mortuary business, seventeen year old Abbie Dresden refuses to believe that she may have a future beyond high school, until she falls in love with Jonah Elias, and is confronted by her worst fear: whether she believes in the future or not, she might still get one. The Color of Gravity is a young adult novel that tells the story of a high school senior obsessed with death who must learn to want to live her life.
Any, Remixed
For one aspiring musician who has grown up in her famous father’s shadow,
It’s time to speak up.
It’s time to act out.
It is her time.
Any, Remixed won Most Promising YA Manuscript in SCBWI CenCal’s Writer’s Day 2017 fiction contest. The anonymous judge commented “ANY, REMIXED has smooth prose and natural dialogue, and the writer has solid story-telling sense. From the first paragraph readers know they’re in capable hands.” The manuscript also won First Runner Up in SCBWI Los Angeles’ Writer’s Days (2014) fiction contest where it was described as “exceptionally vivid and mesmerizing,” with “effortless writing and spot-on characterizations.”