Publications

Loner in the Garret: A Writer's Companion: Inspiration and encouragement for writers. Covering topics as varied as procrastination, the inner critic, fear, distractions, envy, rejection, joy, and playfulness, it charts the ups and downs of the writing life with honesty, gentle suggestions, and a dash of humor.






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Until It Hurts to Stop: Just when Maggie starts believing she can outgrow her history as the local outcast, the girl who once bullied her returns to town.
 



ISBNs 978-0670785209 and 0670785202

Ordering options:
Powell's
Amazon
 
 




Try Not to Breathe:  In the summer after his suicide attempt, sixteen-year-old Ryan struggles with guilty secrets and befriends a girl who’s visiting psychics to try to reach her dead father.



ISBNs 978-0670013906 and 0670013900; 978-0142423875 and 0142423874

Ordering options:
Amazon (hardcover; Kindle); Amazon (paperback)
Powell's
Audiobook





 

The Secret Year: After his secret girlfriend's death, seventeen-year-old Colt finds the notebook she left behind, but he is unprepared for the truths he discovers about their intense relationship.


hardcover on top, ISBNs  978-0670011537 and 0670011533; paperback on bottom, ISBNs 978-0142417799 and 0142417793









Ordering options:

Amazon (hardcover; Kindle); Amazon (paperback) 
Barnes & Noble (Nook)
Powell's (hardcover); Powell's (paperback)


 
 
 Short stories and essays:

"Help Wanted: Radium Dial Painters" in Creative Nonfiction's Sunday Short Reads (#47)
"The Wall of Fear" in the anthology The Walls Between Us
"Confessions and Chocolate Brains," in Running Press's anthology Truth & Dare
"What's This Doing to My Brain?" in Creative Nonfiction
"Monsters," in Hunger Mountain Online
"The Train Tracks," at Wattpad 
"The Stage Manager" in Hunger Mountain Online
"What I Learned in Sunday School," in The Head & The Hand Press's Bible Belt Almanac
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