• Cover reveal,  The Desert Wall

    Cover reveal! Swift the Chase.

    September 24, 2019 /

    The secret project I’ve hinted at a few times is about to go out into the world!  So what is it? I love reading and talking to people about books and I love meeting other authors, so I approached 8 other authors who write stuff that I love and asked them if they wanted to collaborate on a collection. But of what exactly? Well, I knew I wanted heroines (and heroes) who are smart and stories that are hopeful. And more than that, I love chase scenes. Add in a rich three-dimensional cityscape, where the chase can lead up and over roofs, down underground through tunnels or sewers, through twisty…

    read more
  • The Desert Wall,  The Divided World Series

    Where Did Malenie Come From?

    November 26, 2018 /

    By the time I was in 6th grade, I kinda didn’t want to go to school every day. By the time I was in 9th grade, I really didn’t want to go, and by the time I was in 12th grade, I dreaded going. The problem was bullying. In 6th grade I was awkward and was shy and read SFF when that was totally completely really uncool. I remember reading the Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey and a boy telling me, You have to read that nothing book because you’re nothing, too. By 9th grade, the insults were more pointed, the isolation sharper. Sometime after that the threat of…

    read more
  • The Desert Wall,  The Divided World Series

    Deserts and Secrets

    October 30, 2018 /

    The first time I saw a desert I was 15. My parents took me and my sister and cousin to the American Southwest: Zion National Park, the Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon. It was so different from the Northeast; the sky was so wide, the colors so strong, the mountain shapes against the sky so harsh. Also, it was really hot. My sister and cousin ran down the Grand Canyon and then back up, while my mother and I panted and sweated and poured water on bandanas and put them over our heads and then didn’t have enough water to drink. Each step was an effort. I can’t say that I…

    read more