EARTH IN THE SKY
editing, querying fall 2022
Long Longlisted for 2022 Cheshire Novel Prize
THE FOUR WINDS x UPROOTED
Oklahoma, 1893. High Noon.
It's still the wild west. The world is hot, lawless, barren. Tenacious Minnie Hoopes flees her past, determined to create a new life. Alone.
But, a Native woman from the past murmurs her story into the earth. While building her homestead, in mostly isolation, Minnie hears voices: is she losing her grip on her sanity or linking with ancestral memory?
EARTH IN THE SKY is a story about memory and perception, isolation versus community, and one’s elemental, propulsive search for home. And of course, there’s also a sexy cowboy.
Based on the true story of Laura's grandmother's grandmother.
Novel - Historical Fiction, Fabulist
THE HISTORY OF STARLIGHT
querying
GONE WITH THE WIND x ALADDIN
This is the story of the battle against oblivion. It begins with a girl, long ago.
Jerusalem, 978 BCE. A reckless princess and surly warrior-scribe must secure their nation's legacy in a world bursting with rebellions and betrayals.
Novel - Historical Fiction
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POETRY
published and submitting
"regret (noun): a time traveler" on One Sentence Poems. link
More poems forthcoming in literary journals.
BLUE BEYOND THE SEA
submitting
THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE meets THE BARON IN THE TREES
Short Story, 8,500 words - Historical Fiction, Fabulist, Literary
Bavaria, 1109 CE. Edigna flees an arranged marriage, creating a home in the hollow of a linden tree. She creates a life, illuminating manuscripts for a nearby abbey. As she becomes notorious, a legendary story told round fires, she begins to lose her grip on the physical world. Like an influencer of today, she doesn’t like being only a story, she wants to be known too.
“Blue Beyond the Sea” explores the tension between body and spirit, reality and myth, and fate versus the power of calling. Of how we’re perceived or created into a story vs. the “real” self.
Aesthetic - Link to Instagram Reel
THREE WORDS FOR WHAT WE'VE LOST
submitting
Flash Fiction, 1,500 words - Fabulist, Literary
In modern day (2022) Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria a museum guide wonders about the medieval concept of doubles -- and if her own shadow is detaching from her body. "Three Words I Didn't Know Before" explores pandemic isolation & trauma and the many versions of self & identity.
Aesthetic - Link to Instagram Reel
SUGAR IN THE WILDWOOD
drafting
Early Middle Grade, Fantasy, Disability
A SONG FOR A WHALE +
THE PRINCESS IN BLACK + SNOW & ROSE
Sisters Hava and Ariella will fight that dragon and solve that riddle and defeat that annoying wizard and find their parents--
BEEP BEEP BEEP.
Oh no, but first -- Hava must gulp down some sparkling sugar dust. Or die. Because she's a Type One Diabetic.
A novel of magic and bravery, of perseverance and the overwhelming, powerful love between sisters
TRIBAL ELEMENTS novellas
drafting
Drafting novellas for supporting characters in the world of THE HISTORY OF STARLIGHT.
Currently drafting Bina, Carmiya, and Ximen. There's sailing and secrets and journeys. Outlining Neriah and Benaiah's adventures, with Benaiah's story potentially a novel-length prequel.
Novellas - Historical Fiction
a WALKIE-TALKIE story
dreaming up
Short Story - Historical Fiction, Fabulist
Just dreaming up and putting the pieces together.
1950s. There are walkie-talkies. It's hot and dusty. And two people, very alone.