Writing

Welcome to My Writing Desk

Here you’ll find information on all my current writing projects. None of these are published, and all are in various stages of development. I am actively seeking representation for my work. 

Never Meet Your Heroes...

Jeremy Jones has only ever wanted one thing in life: to follow in his older brother’s footsteps and attend Valor Academy, the top university for heroes. As a child, Jeremy was saved from a rare heart condition using an experimental procedure, resulting in the voltage of his pulse gaining superspeed. Adopting the moniker Pulse, he applies to Valor, but when his brother denies him entry, a scorned Jeremy turns rogue to prove himself a hero. It isn’t long before he finds trouble…

Or rather, trouble finds him. A group of notorious supervillains are looking to create a university to rival Valor. They’re failures too, and Jeremy might just be the key to their plan’s success

 

Iniquity is a superhero story, exploring the grey area between hero and villain, good and evil. Set in a fictional, cyberpunk Los Angeles called Cielo Nuevo

 

Check out the Pinterest Board and Spotify Playlist for Iniquity here

A Nordic Neverland Awaits

Erin Harper thought she was hallucinating when a ghostly wolf that only she could see began following her around, but the wolf quickly becomes the least of her worries as the magic of the Northern Lights takes over the night sky, bringing along with it a mysterious flying boy and his Valkyrie. The boy, who calls himself Peter, speaks of Vikings, gods, magic, and a Realm hidden away in the stars. Erin yearns to visit and discover the secrets of the universe, but once she goes, will she be able to come back? 

 

The Never Realm is a fantasy Peter Pan retelling rife with Norse mythology and set in a Neverland based on Iceland, called Villheim

 

Check out the Pinterest Board and Interactive Map for The Never Realm, plus a Wiki of Neverland (Villheim) and a Spotify Playlist

When Both Contend, Who Is The Mightier?

Ophelia was a child when she decided to save the life of a human prince instead of drowning him like she was supposed to. Obsessed with the surface ever since, Ophelia hides out in a shipwreck, talking to the skulls of long-dead humans for company.

Years later, when she is approached by a witch with a deal to visit the prince’s castle, Ophelia can’t help but accept. However, she quickly finds herself out of her depth. Between assassination attempts, castle politics, and nefarious ghosts, surface life is nothing like under the sea… and it may just drive her mad

 

Mad as the Sea & Wind is a tragic fantasy mash-up of Hamlet and The Little Mermaid, set in 16th-century Kronborg Castle (Helsingør, Denmark)

 

Check out the Pinterest Board for Mad as the Sea & Wind

Peace Is A Gilded Layering...

Valeria’s dream was always to become a Dame and be assigned as a knight to the Metal guild, the largest of the guild islands. That’s the dream of all the knights-in-training on the Isle of Bellor, but when Val is assigned to a lesser Guild, the Glass guild, and her best friend Emalyn receives the Metal guild post instead, Val fears they may never see each other again. However, fate has other things in store, with war between the Guilds on the horizon and the Glass guild as the first to feel the fires of battle. Soon, Val finds herself on a mission to save her Guild, and the key to it might be Emalyn

 

Guilded is a fantasy story, exploring an archipelago with each island split by guild affiliation to avoid war with one another… but war may be inevitable

 

                        Check out the Pinterest Board for Guilded

From 60 AD to 1923

Kerry Wixley has a secret. Well, she has a lot of secrets — she’s a sorceress, she’s a dancer, she does magic shows at a secret club. To her, it’s all about exploring what it means to be a woman in 1920’s London, but to her father, she is shirking her duties in a line of sorcerers descended from Queen Boudicca, an ancient warrior Queen. Kerry thinks her father and brother are overreacting, and that magic shouldn’t be kept secret…

But be careful what you wish for. When Kerry’s magic is discovered by a nefarious businessman and he binds her magic to his will, everything changes. Now Kerry finds herself as an assassin sent to defeat and capture her own kin, with her entire magical community on the line

 

Pritani is a fantasy story set in 1920’s London with ancient Celtic magic running through the veins of the descendants of Boudicca, a queen of the ancient British Celts in Pritani (Britain)

 

Check out the Pinterest Board for Pritani

Through The Looking Glass

Cassandra (Cassie) Drewitt was 21 when she received her glass eye, following a severe car crash that left her father in a vegetative state. Half a year later, Cassie has recovered, but as she adjusts to her glass eye, strange things keep happening…

Sometimes, Cassie can see out of her glass eye. Sometimes, she swears she can see the reflections in her mirror move. Often, she feels like her reflection is watching her — and she is right. When Cassie’s evil reflection crosses through her mirror and traps Cassie inside of it, Cassie quickly finds herself in a flip of her world, inhabited by reflections made of light. Can Cassie find a way to cross the mirror and return home? Or will she be trapped in the mirror dimension forever?

 

Beyond A Glass, Darkly is a sci-fi story about the world beyond our mirrors and what a flipped world with physics like that may entail. Reflections are slaves to their physical counterparts, and they’re not happy about it

 

Check out the Pinterest Board for Beyond A Glass, Darkly

Say Goodbye to Memory Lane

Vicki’s daughter, Marley, has a rare memory condition, called dissociative amnesia. It’s manageable, but Marley barely remembers her father, and Vicki fears one day she may be forgotten too. As Vicki grows more and more overprotective, she cannot bring herself to let Marley go off to college — or let herself move on from her late husband.

Enter Laurence: a lawyer who has just moved in a floor above, and Marley is determined to get her mother to date him, hoping to win her own freedom in the process. At first, everything goes well, but things take a turn when it seems Laurence is keeping secrets. While Marley often forgets difficult memories, Laurence has memories he wants to forget, and it’s terrorizing him deeply

 

Blissful is a family drama screenplay set in a snowy Chicago through the lens of Blissful Coffee Bar, tucked away in an alley (based on Hero Coffee Bar in Chicago). Each character is battling their own demons, and together, they may be able to support each other in their trauma

 

Check out the Pinterest Board for Blissful.