Published Work
The Mistletoe Connection
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Click here to read “The Snowglobe Effect,” an epilogue short story about some of your favorite characters from The Mistletoe Connection.
On Christmas Eve, ten strangers at the Denver airport are trying to make it home in time for Christmas when a snowstorm sweeps through, grounding all flights. Stuck in the airport together, they’ll help each other discover the magic of in-between places.
Six intertwined stories explore what happens in the airport as the clock ticks closer to midnight: Landry runs into her ex-girlfriend Resa, and the two women hit it off like nothing ever happened—until things start to get serious. Unaccompanied minor June convinces Adrian to pretend to be her boyfriend for social media that evening, but what happens if she wants to stop pretending? Charles is struggling during the first holiday season since his wife’s death, and the resulting tension with his daughter only makes the night more difficult. Wes and Keely had hoped to sweep their fight about Keely’s career under the rug during the holidays, but being stranded at the airport will bring emotions to a boiling point. Airport employees Trevor and Kat have been best friends since middle school, but can Trevor work up the courage to tell Kat he wants to be more than that? Through it all, heartbroken Mariel is determined to end the worst year of her life on a good note, and ropes everyone into her scheme to make it happen.
Backstays of the Sun
Short story – Winner of the 2018 Story Embers Short Fiction Award. August, 2018.
Ghost Story
Short story – Published in Wide Angle: A Journal of Literature and Film. Spring 2015.
Current Projects
The Sound of Everything
Steph is perfectly happy with the life she’s built for herself in L.A. A flourishing career as a Foley artist and her two best friends are all she needs. But when her mom shows up on her doorstep after nearly ten years of not seeing each other, Steph begins doubting how successful her life actually is. She’s determined to prove to her mom and to herself that she didn’t make a mistake by leaving her small hometown, even if it means lying to her friends and her mom. When the lies begin to unravel, however, Steph must decide who she is and what is truly important in her life.
Genre: Women’s fiction
Status: Editing
The Bell & the Blackbird
At twenty two years old, Meredith has a plan. Step one is marrying her longtime boyfriend Ryan, and if she can just ignore that little voice in her head that suggests she’s settling, everything will work out fine. But when a tornado traps Meredith in a coffeeshop bathroom with Jeremiah, she starts to question if “fine” is good enough.
The choice of who to date will create two drastically different parallel lives, and through alternating chapters, Meredith lives out the effects of her decision. In a life with Ryan, a rocky start to their marriage and his workaholic tendencies cause her to doubt her choice, but she also has two children she loves more than she could imagine. A life with Jeremiah leads Meredith to realize true love might actually exist, but it won’t protect her from struggling with infertility and family strife. Though she’ll never know where the other road might have led, Meredith will spend the next decade wrestling with fate and learning how to trust those she loves in both lives—but time is running out for her in one of them.
Genre: Upmarket women’s fiction
Status: Querying
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