Novels In-Progress

Art by Paul Herrmann (Public Domain)

How to Survive on Land

A fabulist-literary story following two half-sea nymph sisters growing up on land, raised by their ostensibly human over-protective aunt in the suburbs of a fictional central Florida, seven years after their siren mother's disappearance. When our narrator begins to hear a mysterious voice, calling her when near water, she finds herself wrestling with aspects of her identity, along with the emergence of mysterious, a growing estrangement from her sister (who jockies to find her place in the land world), all while seeking to uncover the mystery behind their mother's disappearance. 

Longlisted in The Master's Review Novel Excerpt Contest (2024)​

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Art by Kay Nielsen (Public Domain)

The Witches' Shoes

The trouble begins on a trip to Martha's Vineyard one summer, when fifteen-year old Millie Morehouse finds a pair of enchanted shoes belonging to (she'll later learn) one of twelve imprisoned witches. The shoes, and the strange dancing ability they give her, usher her into the wild (and dangerous) world of battling witches and a quest to find the other magical shoes where the witches hid their powers before someone else does; yet when Millie's brother is taken (by the thirteenth witch, the one who - it seems - is responsible for the others' imprisonment), the shoes take on a new role, and Millie must battle for the people she loves most.

"The four of them stood for some minutes outside the Raucous Reef. The moon, a waxing gibbous, seemed extra large and low in the sky. Diners pushed past them, heading home, and Millie was an ordinary girl again, not the dancing queen of the night."

Art by Ivan Bilibin (Public Domain)

The House of Love

The story of the centuries-old Zamora House, deep in the New England woods, where the spirits who find it are given temporary physical form (a portal, doorway back into physical form, for spirits). Built by Madalena Zamora, persecuted as a witch in the 1700’s; discovered (and rebuilt) by Marco Vitale, an 1860’s Sicilian immigrant who, after his death in the Civil War, wanders as a spirit for decades; and later stumbled upon by a woman searching to bring back her dead husband, who is determined to unearth the house’s secrets, even if it means destroying it. Based loosely on the myth of Orpheus/Eurydice.
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Longlisted in The Master's Review Novel Exceprt Contest (2021)

Honorable Mention in CRAFT Literary's First Chapters Contest (2022)

Novels In-Progress

How to Survive on Land

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The Witches' Shoes

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The House of Love

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