My Books

YA Novels

I write novels for young adults, junior high students, college students, and anybody else.

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Gardening books

The Easy-Growing Gardening series (so far) covers vegetable gardening, roses, tomatoes, and will soon add perennials to the mix.

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Civil War Books

One is a nationally-published book, and the other is one about Civil War facial hair. Then again, have you seen these beards?

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My newest series

Dragons! War! Medieval Italy! Dragon riders! Assassins!

Fia supports her family by transporting rich people from one city to another on the back of her garnet dragon, Ryelleth. She loves her dragon's eye view of Fiorenza, a magical Italian city full of dragons and warfare, and she loves her time with Ryelleth. But Fia will soon lose her dragon as part of her bridal-cost. "We might let you fly her if you're good," her husband-to-be jokes.

When Fia flies her father to the peace talks in Siena, he's grabbed off the back of Fia's dragon, and Fia barely escapes with her life. The kidnappers demand a ransom that will bankrupt her family -- and if they don't pay within two weeks, they'll murder her father. So Fia turns to her grandmother, a former assassin, and asks her to find the kidnappers and kill them.

Fia and her grandma plunge into the dark world of Italia crime, chasing down clues to her father's whereabouts, but time is running out.

Fia has to take the gamble of a lifetime to bring her father back alive — but this gamble may destroy her family and the life she's fought so hard to preserve.

If you enjoy the dragon books of Ursula K. Le Guin and Anne McCaffery, you'll love taking flight in ASSASSIN'S BLADE.

The White Oak Chronicles

Acorn fights like the ancient warriors – as a yearling, he doesn’t have the weight to throw around – and loves the stories of the warriors, the Qelvska, who began the line of chieftains that now rule the raccoon tribes everywhere. Power and strength are Acorn’s goals – but then Catface, the leader of the outlanders, attacks him and gave him the outlander’s bite, the mark given to raccoons cast out of their tribes. Though Acorn did no wrong, his tribe shuns him. When another raccoon steals the chieftainship and exiles Acorn, he lashes back by stealing away the sister of death, which Catface was calling forth. War brews between outlanders and tribal raccoons, and Acorn knows that the only ones that suffer will be the innocents. And he is not going to let that happen.

Outlander's Scar is the first book in the White Oak Chronicles. The adventures of the White Oak tribe continues in Wandering Stars, which is like Watership Down only with raccoons and song magic. In Silverlady Descends, the third book of the series, the chieftain of the tribe descends into the Underworld to make a bargain to save her tribe from famine and war.

Why Can't My Life Be a Romance Novel?

This is an Instafreebie short story about Kathy, who very much likes her books and music and a quiet existence alone. Then she falls in love with Wyatt, the boy with all the verbs. Why did this have to happen? Aaa she's going to die of this love thing! It's a classic case of a shy gal who runs screaming from love.

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