Works

Fiction: Young Adult




The Fetch
Calder was a Fetch, a death escort, the first of his kind to climb backwards from Heaven to earth and fall in love with a mortal girl.

A Certain Slant of Light
Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you’re dead. Though I could not feel paper between my fingers or taste the tip of a pencil, I could see and hear the world with all the clarity of the Living. To them, on the other hand, I was empty air.

How-to



Novel Shortcuts: Ten Techniques that Ensure a Great First Draft
Novel Shortcuts shows you how to quickly write a first draft that’s also rich and engrossing–covers everything from finding the crosshairs of your plot to using storytelling devices.
* Available April 2009 *

Your First Novel: An Author Agent Team Share the Keys to Achieving Your Dream
Your First Novel describes how to write and sell your first novel. It is co-written with literary agent Ann Rittenberg and includes an introduction by author Dennis Lehane.

Selected Works

Fiction: Young Adult
The Fetch
A supernatural love story set in both the chaos of the Russian Revolution and the Aisle of Unearthing.
A Certain Slant of Light
After benignly haunting a series of people for over a century, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their paths.
How-to
Novel Shortcuts: Ten Techniques that Ensure a Great First Draft
A unique guide to the mastery of “Speed Depth” in fiction writing.
Your First Novel: An Author Agent Team Share the Keys to Achieving Your Dream
How to write and sell your first novel, co-written with literary agent Ann Rittenberg.

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