My Writing

Novel Sample Chapters

The Button Girl

Sixteen-year-old Repentance Atwater hates living in the breeder village. She hates the foggy swamp, she hates the fence around the village, penning her in as if she were an animal, and she hates that the other villagers think she’s cursed because of her light complexion. More than all of those things, though, she hates the thought of breeding and giving her first two sons to be slaves for the Overlords. [...read more]

Publishing Credits

• The Summer Sun and the Yup’ik Boy, Highlights for Children (July, 2008).

You may read the story here if you like. 

Contests, Grants, and Scholarships

2011

• Moving at a snail's pace, perhaps, but moving, nonetheless. I signed with Reclaim Management this year!

2010

• Chautauqua Scholarship from the Highlights Foundation.
• First Place~ Out of the Slushpile: Fifteen Minutes of Fame Contest from the nice folks at Novel Journey.

2009

• Nothing. Nada. Zip. Hey, leave me alone. I’ve been busy writing.

I entered no contest and won no award.
I wrote just as much as my life would afford.
This year! Where did the time go?

I moved in with Mother and buried my dad.
I finished my novel, although I was sad.
This year! I was working my butt off.

2008

• SCBWI Work in Progress Grant
• Mount Hermon Scholarship from The Cecil Murphey Foundation

2007

• ACFW Genesis–2007: 1st place sci-fi/fantasy
• ACFW Genesis–2007: 3rd place young adult