WRITING
MANUSCRIPTS
THE BELLEWITE MYSTERY
The Roaring Twenties are over—it’s time for Maddie Brown to settle down. A Manhattan socialite with a penchant for scandal, she’s pressured into marriage with a respectable doctor after her family loses their fortune in the Great Crash. In these uncertain times, women like her can’t be left to their own devices.
But on a scenic drive upstate with her overbearing fiancé, Maddie gets cold feet and runs away to be a postwoman in a secluded town in the mountains of the Hudson Valley. Folk magic has survived there: A curmudgeonly seamstress reads tea leaves under the disapproving eye of the church, and farmers haggle with faeries in the fields at harvest time.
When Maddie starts hearing voices on her postal route through the woods, she wonders if there may be latent magical powers inside her too. Powers she’s been taught to suppress all her life. The more she learns about witchcraft, however, the more Maddie suspects she’s being haunted by the ghost of the last postwoman, who vanished in the woods.
THE GHOST MATCHMAKER
Sylvia Sterling is just trying to get her start in life when she finds herself an unlikely matchmaker to the dead. Giving up her dream of becoming a prima ballerina, she applies to work at the Haus of Periwinkle & Posey in the notoriously haunted port-city of Rivette.
Her first client, Catherine de La Art, isn’t like other ghosts, however; she’s led a respectable afterlife, even permitting the city to convert her house on Rigby Lane into a historic landmark museum. Sylvia may not know much about necromancy or the customs of the afterlife, but she has just the dead poet in mind for a specter bridegroom.
He’s a little more awkward than she imagined, certainly, with his shabby tweeds and old fashion manners, but after getting to know Leslie Sinclair, Sylvia is convinced it would be impossible for any woman, living or dead, not to fall in love with him—excepting herself, of course. She doesn’t have the time. She gave up romance and pretty much everything else when she hung up her dancing shoes. She’s much too busy making a living to get a life.
IMMORTAL ENEMY
Jasna is a serial killer with only one victim. A graphic designer flunking out of college in upstate New York, she keeps to herself. But her chance encounter with pre-med student Dorian spirals into a twisted fixation. Her uncanny opposite in every way, she can’t help being drawn to him.
Stalking him around campus, her obsession escalates, until one night, she murders Dorian–only to see him in class the next day like nothing happened.
Desperate to discover the secret of his immortality, Jasna insinuates herself into his life. But when their unlikely friendship turns romantic, she begins to suspect Dorian knows more than he’s letting on.
PUBLICATIONS
“Nothing but the Blackest Art: Rhetorical Magic and the Art of Enchantment in Jane Austen."
Published in Transactions, vol. 19, May 2015.
“Alice in the Pool”
Took the First-Place Prize for Prose in the Vox Arts and Literary Journal 2013 Spring/Summer writing contest.