It’s been too long since I posted an update here, so I figured I should remedy that. I am now exclusively working on writing dark YA novels. (Horror? Paranormal thrillers with elements of mystery? Who knows what I should call them?)

Since discovering that writing in this genre feels more like “me” than any other novel genre, I have been busy. Finding what you truly love can be so energizing! In the last year, I have:

attended the Big Sur Children’s Writers Workshop in Cape Cod, the Highlights Whole Novel Revision Workshop, the Highlights Making Magic Workshop, and the annual AWP conference. I’m currently enrolled in the Story Studio Novel in a Year program for YA and MG writers. I also started a Substack! It is called Haunted Compost.

My first foray into YA, a Jersey shore vampire novel, is complete. I revised it and queried it briefly. Did pretty well with requests, but now I am giving it another round of revisions before heading back out into the query trenches.

I am also working on a new manuscript! (That’s where the Story Studio course comes in, of course.) It’s a book with a revenge ghost! Who is only partly human! And it’s also about complicated girl friendships and grief. (Still thinking of possible comps, and I definitely need a more modern one, but it’s a bit like Carrie–if she died first before exacting her revenge.)

So that’s me. What have you been up to?