THE BREAKUP GAME
The Breakup Game is a contemporary Young Adult novel.
Manuscript is finished and awaiting publication.
Sixteen-year-old, therapist-wannabe Kaitlyn Boyd has “nothing” to confess. She’d obviously “never even think” to perform bed sheet gymnastics with her super kissable boyfriend Seth. She’s practically a saint!
But her lies begin to crumble when Seth announces their sexcapades to her Catholic parents. Pinned between her boyfriend’s obsession with truth and her parent’s Hell-obsessed theology, Kaitlyn does what she does best: deny with Virgin Mary vibes.
Mr. Kissable Truth Lover won’t play along. He breaks up with Kaitlyn, but even worse, his big mouth gets bigger. When he weaponizes her secrets—and her whole community—against her, Kaitlyn must battle back with a flood of lies to stay afloat, or else drown in the reality of her own unacceptable sins.
The Breakup Game (80,000 words) pits a boy’s psychological warfare against a girl who will do anything to break free, with devastating truths smack dab in the middle.​
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FLOWER DRESS
Flower Dress is a contemporary Young Adult novel.
Manuscript is finished and awaiting publication.
Sixteen-year-old Connor Hicks is in love with an "Enigma:" a girl named Rebecca who’s never said "yes" to her many date requests. He wants to woo her off her feet, but he's as timid as a kicked puppy. His parents' divorce made sure of that.
Yet the clock is ticking, prom is coming, and Connor's facing unhinged competition. The school’s biggest powerhouse has his coy eyes glued on Rebecca’s lightly freckled face…and her lightly freckled body.
With the help of two oddball friends and a flower-obsessed blockbuster, his love just might have a shot. To show his drunkard dad that being a hopeful romantic isn't hopeless, and to charm (and save?) the most mysterious girl in school, Connor must battle against doubts and danger to captivate the untouchable Rebecca Johnson.​
Flower Dress (90,000 words) combines the search for answers and the hardships of longing into a story of escalating high school adventure.​
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CIAO, CHUBBY CHILD!
Ciao, Chubby Child! is a contemporary Young Adult novel.
Manuscript is finished and awaiting publication.
Eighteen-year-old Em is making the most risky decision of her life. She's adopting. She's ignoring all teenage traditions and recreating the nostalgic family life of her childhood.
But, in the middle of the baby’s delivery, Em's dad sends a cryptic emergency text pressuring her to immediately meet him on top of a parking garage. She arrives to a trap. His tight-lipped disapproval expects her to abandon all this 'motherhood' nonsense and, instead, play board games with him to repatch their old bond.
Fleeing him instead of fighting him is her daughterly forte. But as his hollow words poke at her dreams of being a good mom, nagging like the doubts in her own head, she decides to prove herself. To win over the complicated man who inspired her to be a parent, Em must strategically use his obsessive hobby against him or lose out on the one big happy family she’s always hoped for.
Ciao, Chubby Child! (47,000 words) combines calculated gameplay and a bottle episode feel into a story of spiraling family collision.
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FLOWER DRESS
This is the story of a timid boy who yearns for a “yes” from a mysterious girl who is known for her “no.”
His dad calls Connor a “hopeless romantic,” emphasis on hopeless. It’s true. Connor’s only experience of being in love is acting 'in love' on a high school theater stage.
Yet even off the stage, Connor likes to view himself as a hopeful romantic. His shy glances have always peeked at Rebecca Johnson's lightly freckled cheeks. He’s been hoping, hoping, and hoping for their romance ever since freshman year.
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There’s a problem, though. Rebecca’s supposedly not on the market. She’s titled in the halls of Ridgeway High as “The Enigma,” due to her mysterious and unexplained pattern of turning down all date requests. Rebecca even denied the school’s most attractive bachelors.
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At the start of junior year, Connor is still trying to brainstorm how to make his romantic Rebecca dreams into reality when he accidentally makes a horrible first impression.
Now, with no ‘redo’ button in sight, he’s scrambling. He’s forced to improvise. For once, he needs to stop hoping and start doing. But what can he ‘do?’ How can his inexperience unlock a locked heart?
The clock is ticking, prom is coming, and the school’s biggest powerhouse has his coy eyes glued on Rebecca’s lightly freckled face … and her lightly freckled body.
With the help of two oddball friends, a flower-obsessed blockbuster, and a homework assignment written in the ‘80s, Connor battles against doubts and danger in an attempt to become the boy that can woo the untouchable Enigma.
Flower Dress is a Young Adult coming of age novel. It explores who a person needs to become to experience the love they most desperately want.