BOOKS
Untitled YA Thriller
The author brought this project to Tin House Summer Workshop 2024. More coming soon!
Charity Starts at Home
Young Adult Suspense, 79k words
This manuscript draws from the author's 30 years of experience with type 1 diabetes. He worked on it at Tin House YA 2022, Key West Literary Seminar 2022, and Tin House Spring Seminar 2023.
Comps: YA suspense and thriller authors (think Kara Thomas, Marieke Nijkamp, Vincent Ralph), with the emotional core of dark YA contemporary (Nina LaCour, Amber Smith, Faith Gardner).
Images courtesy of Famous Psychic Mediums, mvnicx, Halloween Found, Sugar Medical, Urban General Store, Raveyard, Stephen Hassler, and IFTTT.
Further: A Novella and Stories
Short Fiction, 47k words
In the titular novella, eighteen-year-old runaway Chloe Grey has a new career (waiting tables), a new love (who also happens to be her landlord), and even a new name (which is the same as her estranged sister's, but only because it sounds cool). Still, she is plagued by memories of her violent mother and a growing sense of unease with her living arrangement. When she runs into someone from her old life, everything starts to unravel.
Shortlisted for the 2016 William Faulkner - Wisdom Award in the Novella category.
Other stories in this collection feature a futuristic fad diet through the eyes of a budding radical, an undervalued detective in crisis situations, and tourist traps both sinister and maudlin. Equally concerned with grim realism and speculative omens, Further: A Novella and Stories dives deep into the loneliness and absurdity of young adulthood. Thirteen of this manuscript's fifteen short stories have appeared in magazines or anthologies; eight have won or placed in contests.
The author brought this project to Tin House Summer Workshop 2024. More coming soon!
Charity Starts at Home
Young Adult Suspense, 79k words
This manuscript draws from the author's 30 years of experience with type 1 diabetes. He worked on it at Tin House YA 2022, Key West Literary Seminar 2022, and Tin House Spring Seminar 2023.
Comps: YA suspense and thriller authors (think Kara Thomas, Marieke Nijkamp, Vincent Ralph), with the emotional core of dark YA contemporary (Nina LaCour, Amber Smith, Faith Gardner).
Images courtesy of Famous Psychic Mediums, mvnicx, Halloween Found, Sugar Medical, Urban General Store, Raveyard, Stephen Hassler, and IFTTT.
Further: A Novella and Stories
Short Fiction, 47k words
In the titular novella, eighteen-year-old runaway Chloe Grey has a new career (waiting tables), a new love (who also happens to be her landlord), and even a new name (which is the same as her estranged sister's, but only because it sounds cool). Still, she is plagued by memories of her violent mother and a growing sense of unease with her living arrangement. When she runs into someone from her old life, everything starts to unravel.
Shortlisted for the 2016 William Faulkner - Wisdom Award in the Novella category.
Other stories in this collection feature a futuristic fad diet through the eyes of a budding radical, an undervalued detective in crisis situations, and tourist traps both sinister and maudlin. Equally concerned with grim realism and speculative omens, Further: A Novella and Stories dives deep into the loneliness and absurdity of young adulthood. Thirteen of this manuscript's fifteen short stories have appeared in magazines or anthologies; eight have won or placed in contests.
SHORT STORIES
Just Because You're Paranoid
Flash Suspense, 1000 words
Two aimless college graduates piss off a dangerous customer at work. Shortlisted for the 2023 Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction, Honorable Mention for the 2022 New Millennium Writing Award in Flash Fiction.
Smoke Tree
Flash Paranormal, 1000 words
A human/ghost community wants to grow its numbers, but every stranger is also a potential threat.
Overnight Famous
Short Contemporary, 2000 words
A smarmy comedian gets more than he bargained for when he steals his ex's spot in a stand-up tournament.
The Death Party
Short Suspense, 2500 words
An eccentric author with a terrible secret is found dead. Her sister suspects murder and has reason to believe the killer's not done. Shortlisted in the 2024 William Faulkner - Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Short Story.
The Skeleton Crew
Short Slasher, 3300 words
It's the day after Christmas, and the restaurant is dead. So is the guy in the freezer.
Flash Suspense, 1000 words
Two aimless college graduates piss off a dangerous customer at work. Shortlisted for the 2023 Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction, Honorable Mention for the 2022 New Millennium Writing Award in Flash Fiction.
Smoke Tree
Flash Paranormal, 1000 words
A human/ghost community wants to grow its numbers, but every stranger is also a potential threat.
Overnight Famous
Short Contemporary, 2000 words
A smarmy comedian gets more than he bargained for when he steals his ex's spot in a stand-up tournament.
The Death Party
Short Suspense, 2500 words
An eccentric author with a terrible secret is found dead. Her sister suspects murder and has reason to believe the killer's not done. Shortlisted in the 2024 William Faulkner - Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Short Story.
The Skeleton Crew
Short Slasher, 3300 words
It's the day after Christmas, and the restaurant is dead. So is the guy in the freezer.