Teaser Tuesday: HORNBEAM (Date Night)

Today’s teaser is from a young adult book I’m working on called The Hornbeam Door.  It feels a little weird to write something intended for teenagers, but I’m clearly tapping into the desolate weirdness of my own adolescence. *** As soon as Mom got home from work, I said, “Reese asked me to the movie [...]

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Teaser Tuesday: LIE (Olivia & the paramedic)

For those of you left wondering, “What happened with the paramedic?” after last Tuesday’s teaser, this is simply … a further tease.  What can I say?  It takes more than a few chapters for this particular incident to unfold. *** Olivia was the kind of girl who never managed to break the ice, even at [...]

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Teaser Tuesday: LIE (Olivia’s thumbs)

For today, something completely different.  With Ugly and the Beast out to an agent, I’m looking at one of my projects that stuttered to a halt while I wrote Ugly last year.  This is a portion of chapter two of Lie, Lay, Lain, where one of my two main characters is introduced.  It’s a bit [...]

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