Live Edge
Determined to protect the coyotes that have crossed uninvited into her manicured suburb, Krista has discovered she, too, is a force of nature who must slip the trap of a town bent on annihilating unexpected signs of wildlife.
LIVE EDGE is a young adult novel, currently under revision.
pencil drawing by Jill Ann Bixel
DARK ROOM
Jessie Krashauer is knotted blonde locks, a Well-behaved women rarely make history t-shirt, and, nested in her patchwork skirt, an old Minolta hanging from a Dylan sunburst weave camera strap around her neck. Like her idol, Dorothea Lange, she sees people and is compelled to photograph them—now. But Jessie is caught between a school riddled with requirements that wilt her soul and the nagging question—Am I good enough?
DARK ROOM is a young adult novel currently in development.
My dad in his dark room in the 1970s
GOLDEN BEAR
Gib Parks wants to fill the holes in his adoption story before the conveyor belt of high school speeds up and he forgets how important it is to him. But his parents evade his questions with trite Hallmark lines, leaving Gib with a pervading anxiety that threatens to flare into full-blown anger he doesn’t feel justified in releasing on them. While his parents pressure Gib to chart his college path, Gib just wants to throw the brakes and figure out where he comes from. Sometimes the past is the key to figuring out your future.
Stuffed Alaskan brown bear turned high school mascot
Doodling to story’s playlist to draw out themes and make connections.
GHOSTWRITERS
Three years ago, SKYE's sister ASHTON went ghosting at an eerie house, the resident fired shots, and Ashton came home with a bullet in her head. Though her sister has no memory of the incident, Skye has long been suspicious Ashton pushed things too far that night. Now seventeen, Skye must choose between an acceptance letter from N.Y.U. and an unspoken obligation, that may be partially her own, to enroll at State with her brain-injured sister. Determined to make her sister see it mattered what she did that night, Skye challenges Ashton to help her investigate what really happened.
Their probe uproots memories of the sisters' relationship before bullets. Skye still resents Ashton, the charismatic cheerleader who deserted her after their parents' divorce, and desperately wants her affection. Dogged by years of silence, Skye begins adding to the memory book Ashton uses to cope with her brain injury, hoping if Ashton has to take responsibility for the kind of person she was, maybe Skye won’t have to. When Ashton begins writing back, the sisters' memories fly back and forth—weapons, dares, and olive branches—with the power to heal the sisters or end them forever.
GHOSTWRITERS is a young adult novel, complete at 80,000 words.
A Glimpse into My Process
My Process Journal for Drafting
My Process Journal for Story Development
Write the book only you can write; write the most YOU book you can.
adapted from Maggie Stiefvater’s blog post Writing the Book I Always Meant To