Award-Winning Novels!

Snack runs in Utah just got deadly Bold Satire Crimes of Convenience: Grand Finalist of 200 entries in the 40th annual 3-Day Novel Contest. A Blue Collar Conspiracy!	Jessica has become just psychic enough to get herself killed YA Speculative Mystery Too Much Information: Top Ten out of 1,984 published & unpublished entries in the 2017 Book Pipeline Contest. One of Seven international finalists in line for the grand prize in the 2018 Eyelands Book Awards.
…and check my profile page for links to twenty award-winning published short stories.

12-15: The “Right Age” for Body Image

Ever been annoyed by a teen drama?

Remember this guy? All that confidence, while he was in public school!

That is a safe question: if you are over the age of twenty, and have ever read or watched any fiction, then of course so-called “realistic” teen drama has annoyed you. There is something about the perfection of these high-schoolers—their polished, acne-free skin, their toned abs, their assured confidence—that distracts an audience from the angst they are supposed to be experiencing. Somehow, their popularity with their peers just makes an older viewer yawn over their battles with addiction and their quests for the perfect convertible. Remembering our own adolescence might make us want to ask why: why can’t more novels and films depict teen insecurity as it is?

Perhaps the reason is that it just hits too close to home.