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Splinter  is my first novel and as yet, unpublished. It's written for Middle Grade readers. Since first books sometimes don't get read by anyone but the author and their closest friends, I'll keep the story to myself for now. But I can tell you how it began. While sanding the wood floors in our eighty-year-old bungalow, figures appeared in the layers of paint and wood grain. I picked up my sketchbook and drew them...a lop-eared rabbit in suspenders, a woody-faced boy, a tiger-striped ferret, and a juvenile dragon-like creature.  I grew so attached to those characters, I couldn't erase them from the floor. I sprinkled them with glitter and sealed the wood. Every day, they greeted me and a story blossomed in my head. What if a lonely girl moved to an old house and the figures she saw in the floor existed? So, began the tale of Dani Travers. What waits for her beyond the wood will change her life forever.

                                         Three of the sketches that prompted Splinter.

I'm currently working on The World According to Kizzie Montgomery, a contemporary book for Young Adults.  Fifteen-year-old Kizzie  creates an imaginary world based on her favorite books and movies to avoid the harsh reality of her life. She meets a moody recluse who offers her a job caring for his Irish Wolfhounds.  As her home life spirals out of control, Kizzie is drawn into the world of the dogs and their mysterious owner who hides a dark past.