WRITING
MANUSCRIPTS
THE GHOST MATCHMAKER
Sylvia Sterling does not believe in ghosts. She is just trying to get her start in life, when she finds herself an unlikely matchmaker to the dead.
But Catherine de La Art isn’t like other ghosts; she has led a respectable afterlife, even permitting the city to convert her house on Rigby Lane into a museum. Surely finding a match for her shouldn’t be too difficult? In fact, Sylvia has just the dead poet in mind.
He’s a little awkward, certainly, with his shabby tweeds and old fashion manners, but after getting to know Leslie Sinclair, Sylvia is convinced that it would be impossible for any woman, living or dead, not to fall just a little in love with him—except her, of course. She doesn’t have the time. She’s much too busy making a living to get a life.
THE BELLEWITE MYSTERY (WIP)
The Roaring Twenties are over. It’s time for Maddie Brown to settle down. A Manhattan socialite defamed by scandal, she’s pressured into an engagement with a respectable doctor to salvage her reputation. But on a scenic drive upstate, she gets cold feet and runs away to be a postwoman in an enchanted town on the shores of the Hudson River.
Folk magic has survived there: an elderly seamstress tells fortunes under the watchful eye of the church. A mysterious woodsman consults with the spirits in the woods and hunts the mythical beasts which threaten it.
Awakening suppressed powers of her own, Maddie strives to join their coven. She charms her way into an apprenticeship with the woodsman and, much to her dismay, slowly falls in love with him. It’s hard enough trying to balance work and magic without love too, and it becomes even more difficult when a witchfinder arrives in town to solve the disappearance of the last postwoman.
Even a wise woman only has so many hours in the day, but if Maddie wants to build a new life for herself, she’ll have to follow the clues Bridget Smith left behind.
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
"Sex, Death, and the Never Never Land: Conflicting Fantasies in James Barrie’s Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up."
Published in Transactions, vol. 18, May 2014. Awarded Excellence in Humanities by the Pace University Dyson Society of Fellows.
“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.