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What have I written so far? Besides the hardware and software manuals I wrote as a technical writer, I've written short stories for children and for adults, poems, several humor pieces, some informative articles, and a few personal essays. My primary focuses are fiction and humor, so I often write humorous fiction.
For a previous National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge, in which people attempt to write a novel of 50,000 words or more during the month of November, I wrote a 58,466-word first draft of a young adult novel. With the help of some excellent critiques, I'm still revising the resulting novel (on & off), Chasing Monday, a coming-of-age novel about a 15-year-old girl. My other novels in progress include Can't Beet It, a humorous YA novel about a guy with a lousy job, Purple Panic, a humorous midgrade book involving fourth graders and chewing gum, and End of the Line, a YA novel about the aftermath of a suicide. If I can nail the logistics down, I may also try a time travel novel, tentatively titled Since You're Gone.
Want to sample my writing? I'm not comfortable putting my current writing projects on the web, but there are links below to a few of my previous manuscripts that are online. You can also read some of my first (and a few second) sentences, as a teaser.
Published Works
- Several short articles and profiles, Garden Center magazine
- Owen Nolan's Square-Wheeled Bike, Summer Shorts anthology from Blooming Tree Press
- High Dive, Summer Shorts anthology from Blooming Tree Press
- In With The Old, Once Upon A Time
- Oh, I Wished I Were an Oscar Mayer Winner, SCBWI Bulletin
- Falling Through the Quacks, Tall Tales and Short Stories, Vol. II from Tall Tales Press
- A Name for All Time, The First Line
- High Dive, Guideposts for Kids
- Supplication, Purpose
- All's Fair at Science Fairs, On the Line
- The Diet, Peeks & Valleys
- Mom's Chair, Welcome Home
- Inside Out House, Guideposts for Kids
- Fast Food for Thought, ByLine
- By Any Other Name, Welcome Home
- Goofy About Writing, ByLine
- When the Muse Strikes Out, Once Upon A Time
- Holly McPolly McDolly McBean, Half-Price Books' 2001 Say Good Night to Illiteracy collection
- Mine was one of three poems from the book read aloud by singer/songwriter Sara Hickman on a promotional CD for Half-Price Books' charitable Half Pint Libraries program.
- Dear Editor, Once Upon A Time
- Making Your Place on the Corporate Intranet, Intercom
- Rabbit Fever, published as Crazy as a March Hare over Dusty, Austin American-Statesman
- The Canon and the Can, CheeseNet (this one hardly counts as published, but I like it, anyway!)
Under Development
and various others in early stages....
- If I Were Little
- Red Feather
- Can't Beet It
- Sage Struck
- Car Troubled
- For Better or For Worse
- The Jungle in My House
- Lainie and Jill
- Through the Glass
- Toothless Wondering
- Second Looks
- Ending Some of It
- A manuscript about flamingos
- a YA time travel manuscript
- a humorous chapter book mystery series
- The Zoo That Grew
- Magic Socks
- Warm Day in Winter
- Pig for a Night
- Uh-Oh
- Purple Panic
- Quench
- Chasing Monday
- End of the Line
Updated 4/21/08