Published Works
You can read my first published piece of short fiction, We Are The Giants We Fear, in issue twenty-two of Haven Speculative.
I’ve also had several pieces of Flash Fiction published in Fairfield Scribes: Issue 55 and Issue 56.
Active Queries – Seeking Publication and Representation
Group
The teachers at Ravendale have to go. After band competitions, the music teacher drives the children home while drunk The music teacher has driven children home after band competitions while drunk and another teacher may or may not be a puppy killer. And when a student is struck by lightning, the French teacher mishandles the scene in a near-fatal manner. In a word, they are inept.
Burt has an idea: he and his friends should band together secretly, unite unseen, target the teachers individually and, one by one, drive them insane. With Burt leading Group, the boys start to enjoy one success after another, driving the teachers they do not like from the school and keeping the ones they can tolerate around. As they continue to shape the school in their own image, the one thing Burt – who is always two steps ahead of everyone – doesn’t foresee is how the power they begin to wield is subtly corrupting them from within, a corruption that will eventually result in a massive fire in the dormitories and the death of one of their classmates.
Inspired in form by Catch-22, the narrative relentlessly jumps back and forth in time over the school year and the reader is left to piece together the true timeline of events leading up to the novel’s climax and a tragedy that brings all their work crashing down around them.
Written 2001 to 2003.
Literary Fiction – 97 500 words.
Suddenly Normal
When you are dealing with the grief of losing almost everyone you love at a young age, navigating love during your teen years while attending funerals for people you don’t even know all becomes, weirdly, suddenly, normal.
Suddenly Normal spans the thirty-five years of Elemenope Chernovsky’s life after the heavy emotional losses she endures as a child. It is a darkly comic tale of a girl born to first generation Russian immigrants who is raised solely by her father in a house where the one thing they cannot speak about with each other is the emptiness they both feel.
Like Jennifer Niven’s All The Bright Places, this story of grief and loss is also a story about finding love through that grief. Told in a series of flashbacks and flashforwards as contemporary Ellie mourns a recent death in her life, we learn about what it was like being raised by her father, about finding solace in the grief of others and about the two great loves of her life, the traditional boy meets girl and the more complicated love she shares with her asexual best friend.
Written 2007 to 2020.
Literary Fiction – 82 000 words.
Marlow Durand and the Armies of the Continuance (Five Book Series)
What if every haunted place on Earth is interconnected on another plane of existence; every evil haunting a part of a demonic spirit army’s concerted effort to break through and destroy our world?
17-year-old Marlow Durand is serving time and mopping floors in a juvenile correction centre when he finds himself in the middle of a raid to capture a high-ranking demon. His assistance in the capture introduces him to The Network, a band of protectors united throughout history by one goal: protect the portals between our worlds, at all costs.
This is Lev Grossman’s magician Quentin teamed up with Buffy and friends, thrust into a world where everything we’ve learned from The Exorcist and Paranormal Activity is just the tip of the iceberg.
Book One Written 2021 to 2024.
Supernatural Thriller – 83 200 words.
Works In Progress
Stars
Working door-to-door sales as a summer job may not sound glamourous, and it isn’t, but the lifestyle around the work kept us coming back summer after summer in the late 90’s.
Told as a memoir after a funeral for one of the main characters later in life, Stars is the story of a group of university-aged friends who come together for one last summer of celebrating friendship, finding love and preparing for whatever the cosmos has in store for them after their time together is over.
Started writing December 2021 – WIP.
Literary Fiction.
The End Of The Page
Portia, Charlie and the Fox, characters who have appeared from time to time over the years in my daily flash fiction, have started their journey towards a full manuscript. Where Narnia meets The NeverEnding Story, our heroes try to survive in a world falling apart around them.
If we are the stories told about us, what happens when the storytellers forget who they are?
Started writing July 2026 – WIP.
Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy.
Static Orchard
Celebrating 250 years of storytelling – from 1930 to 2180 – Static Orchard has evolved from fledgling movie studio in old Hollywood to an interconnected society where stories are shared and experienced simultaneously across the globe, preserved forever.
No voice lost or forgotten.
Enter the orchard.
Join the signal.
Started writing August 2026 – WIP.
Sci-Fi Thriller.