Working Title: Ellora the Apprentice Bookkeeper and the Questing Beast

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"At night, the darkest bits of sky fell as ink. The black bits crisped into letters and punctuation marks on the way down, and landed on the rooftops, yards, and roads. The typefall waited till dawn to be collected by legions of Grammar Warehouse staff, who rode in airships to vacuum the type off roofs and drove sweeper trucks down streets. But it wasn’t yet morning, so the inky rain fell onto the splendid domed roof of the Fantasy Council Hall and waited."

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Award-Winning: Golden Pen Finalist at 2024 Letters and Lines, SCBWI Rocky Mountain Chapter annual conference

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Work in progress for fans of NELL O'DELL HATES QUESTS and INKHEART.​ This middle grade fantasy manuscript gained me entry to the 2024 Michelle Begley Mentorship program of the SCBWI Rocky Mountain Chapter. I've put this manuscript through a developmental edit with my friends at Ground Crew Editorial and it is now in revision. If everything goes well, I will begin my quest for an agent in 2026.

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Other Writing

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Read my blogs for NoveList, a division of EBSCO Information Services

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The Dream Hunter, First Place Winner, Adult Short Story. Summit County Libraries 2025 Write the Rockies contest. Hear me talk about the story on my local radio station, Krystal 93.

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Faye's Cake Shop, Honorable Mention. Pikes Peak Library District 2022 All Pikes Peak Writes contest.

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The Capemaker of Comeuppance Alley, Third Place Winner. Pikes Peak Library District 2021 All Pikes Peak Writes contest​.