I’m not published yet! If you’re an editor, check out my current manuscripts below. You can reach my agent by going to the "contact and links" page. If you’re a reader, please be patient!

Young Adult Books:

 
I've written the first book in a planned series of Edgar Academy Novels:  RULES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN.

15-year-old Becca Dufresne starts sophomore year at the Edgar Academy, a high school for psychics that's filled with annoying teenage ghosts, poltergeists, and things that go bump in the middle of the day.  Worse, Becca is sure someone mistakenly assigned her to Saturn group, which is known for breaking all the school rules.  As a top-notch athlete, she’s not a rule breaker.  So why do she and the other 11 kids in Saturn group keep breaking the rules?  And why does everyone think Becca has amazing psychic gifts?  She doesn’t!  She can kick a ball through a soccer net or swish it through a basketball hoop, but she thinks her so-called psychic predictions are all lucky guesses.  She made a mistake coming to this freak school and wants to go home.  But how can she make that happen?  By breaking a few more rules?


I’m currently working on the 4th in a four-book series based on a modern-day clash with Pride and Prejudice.

Book 1:  PRIDE, PREJUDICE, AND PUSH-UP BRAS

   (Honorable Mention, 2007 Laurie Contest, Single Title/Mainstream; Finalist, 2011 Golden Acorn Contest, Mainstream/Young Adult) 

18-year-old Liz Bennet finds herself swirling in a wacky nightmare that only Jane Austen—or Liz’s mom—could’ve dreamed up.  As one of five sisters named after the Bennet sisters in The Book, as Liz not-so-fondly calls it, Liz is horrified when a couple of guys named Charlie Bingham and Alex Darcy arrive in her Minnesota town, and suddenly everything else in Liz’s life starts following The Book.  Or does it?  Liz has big plans for her life, and they don’t exactly mesh with the crazy people Jane Austen keeps throwing at her.  What’s a girl to do? Keep fighting!

Book 2:  BEING MARY BENNET BLOWS

17-year-old Mary Bennet is a senior in high school who wishes Jane Austen had never existed.  She’s one of five sisters named after the Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice, and The Book—as Mary’s sister calls it—seems to be dictating their lives.  Everyone knows the fate Jane Austen dumped on Mary Bennet:  dull, ugly, smart, and piano playing.  But Mary is sick of being that Mary Bennet, so she decides to raise a little hell.  The problem is, will anyone let her?  Can she change how she looks without every kid in school laughing?  Can she ditch piano for electric guitar?  And when a brainy skateboarder pops into her life, can she trust him to not to make her the biggest joke in the school?  With a little help from her sisters, she’s about to find out.

Book 3:  CAT BENNET, QUEEN OF NOTHING

Her twin sister, Lydia, is in reform school, and 16-year-old Cat Bennet doesn’t know if that’s good or bad.  She doesn’t have to deal with the limelight always being on Lydia – but with Lydia not around, there’s no limelight at all.  Worse, when she has to read Pride and Prejudice for school, suddenly everyone in class is pointing at her and laughing, and that’s even before all her friends dump her.  But Cat isn’t the “Kitty” of The Book.  Kitty was, well, lame.  Cat isn’t lame; she’s just invisible.  But how does she become visible?  Be a slut like Lydia or a brain like Liz or Mary or a jock like Liz?  (Let’s not even talk about being perfect like Jane.)  Isn’t there any other option?  Like her own path?  And would someone please let her know what that is?  Because it sure isn’t singing with a rock band!

Book 4:  LIVIN’ LA VIDA BENNET

After a year at reform school in Montana, 17-year-old Lydia Bennet is back in Woodbury, Minnesota, unapologetic and ready to party.  But where’s the party?  And why isn’t she invited?  Woodbury doesn’t feel much different from reform school – or jail.  Dad is acting like a warden, even Mom won’t give Lydia time off for (almost) good behavior, and no one at Woodbury High gives her the time of day.  The girls in Lydia’s old posse won’t speak to her, the guys all seem to want her for the same thing, and the only guy who does want something else doesn’t want her.  Is it too late to fix her bad-girl rep?  Does she want to?  Does she even know how to be a good girl?  Or is it time to find another new school?

Women’s Fiction Books:

SEEMINGLY PERFECT

38-year-old Victoria Carlyle Bentley has the husband, the kids, the career, the mansion—even the Porsche convertible—of which dreams are made.  Until Vic’s husband makes a few, well, changes.  And the FBI visits her Minneapolis art gallery.  And a strange young woman stomps all over what’s left of her well-manicured life.  And Jake Trevor, her first love and worst nightmare, shows up on her doorstep.  As her seemingly perfect life collapses around her, Vic struggles to pick up the pieces.  She discovers a new life that isn’t black or white but, instead, a rainbow of colors—including a most glorious shade of gray.

SUNSETS ON CATFISH BAR

  (Finalist, 2007 Gotcha! contest, Strong Romantic Elements, under former title:
    ST. CROIX SUMMER)