I have a confession to make.

I still haven't written anything. Which means I don't have a Teaser Tuesday.

However, I do have a good excuse for this. For one, I'm back in school, and I'm in the process of buying textbooks and paying rent and grocery shopping and reading over forty books for my EPIC Children's Literature class. On the required reading ( Read more... )

Posting from a hotel room in Kansas. Day #2 of the epic father-daughter road trip. So far I am the proud new owner of a few bumper stickers, a Country Music Hall of Fame t-shirt, and a whole lot of mingled stress and excitement. More on that in about a week. There will be an explanation, I promise. For now, just rest in the knowledge that this ( Read more... )

A Dalet snippet for Teaser Tuesday! I've shared a lot about Camden, but Zoey is the other POV character. This is a snippet from chapter one.

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Zoey De Luca woke up on a Tuesday. This was notable only because the nurses had been told that her condition was irreversible. Her body was a machine that circulated blood, processed oxygen - but mostly it ( Read more... )

This is Dalet, the angel story again. :) A little bit of backstory - Camden just found out that his ex-girlfriend is in a coma from a drug overdose.

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His eyes stung. He dropped his books in the middle of the hall and leaned his forehead against the wall. There were no tears. The world was way too screwed up for tears. So he just let his body ache ( Read more... )

So, I'm smack in the middle of my YA urban fantasy - tentatively titled Dalet - about angels and demons and crackheads and tattoos and sin-eaters and a whole lot of other crazy stuff. And I'm trying very hard to explain to people why having free reign to make up your own rules is NOT as easy / fun / dizzyingly empowering as it sounds.

Allow me to ( Read more... )

This teaser is also from Dalet, which is now at 12,000 words. Yay! *pats self on the back* Enjoy!

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Camden pulled into his driveway and immediately jogged to the backyard, rinsing in the marble fountain. The water turned pink. He ran his wet fingers through his hair and slipped into the house through the back door.

“Cam?”

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This is an excerpt from Dalet, my YA urban fantasy about four kids who wake from comas with the ability to see angels and demons.

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He almost tripped over the girl. Camden caught her arm seconds before she slammed into a locker, a rain of notebook paper fluttering down around them.

“Hey, watch where you’re going,” he said, hauling ( Read more... )

Welcome to the Hall of Shiny New Ideas. This is where I have been living for the past several weeks. This is also why I haven't posted for a while - because I've been trying to corral my creativity into one or two WIPs, so I actually have something to report. Honestly? It hasn't really happened yet. But I've finally given up and decided that it ( Read more... )