Works In Progress

These are the WIPs I’m most excited to write! Feel free to reach out to me or my agent with any questions.

"STAGES" KEY:

CONCEPTUAL: This is a fully formed pitch, it may even have some scenes written, but it does not have a fully fleshed out outline.

DRAFTING: This has an outline / synopsis. Scenes have been written, but it’s still very early in development. The scenes may have been drafted out of order and do not form a full act.

PROPOSAL: This has an outline / synopsis. It would be “query ready” with a pitch and first 50 pages.

FULL MANUSCRIPT: This is a complete manuscript that has been through multiple revisions.

Contemporary

The Unlikeability Project

The Happily Ever After Bookstore

ADULT | NA | ROMANCE | WITTY | IRREVERENT

ADULT | NA | ROMANCE | SWOONY | COZY

  • The Unlikeability Project is an ADULT contemporary romance.

    Is She Really Going Out with Him (Cousens) x Romantic Comedy (Sittenfeld)

  • After her fiance cheats, people-pleasing Sydney reenters the dating pool with the goal of being wholly unlikeable—no more laughing at unfunny jokes, excusing bad behavior, or putting men’s egos before her needs as Sydney learns to take up space and not give a fuck in this adult romance about finding self-love and true love.

  • The Unlikeability Project is in its CONCEPTUAL stage. Click HERE to see more!

  • The Happily Ever After Bookstore is an ADULT or NEW ADULT contemporary romance.

    The Pumpkin Spice Cafe (Gilmore) x BK Borison’s Lovelight Farms — The Hating Game (Thorne) but set in Stars Hollow (Gilmore Girls)

  • Broke, bookish Sophie moves to a sleepy New England town to compete in the contest of her dreams: sell the most books at The Happily Ever After Bookstore before the fall festival, and win the whole store from its retiring owner. The only thing standing between her and the win? A hot, grumpy Library Science grad student with a distain for romance—real and fictional.

  • The Happily Ever After Bookstore is in its CONCEPTUAL stage. Click HERE to see more!

Just Call if You Need Me

Public Relations

ADULT | NA | ROMANCE | EMOTIONAL | SWOONY

ADULT | NA | ROMANCE | LUSH | SAPPHIC

  • Just Call If You Need Me is an ADULT or NEW ADULT contemporary romance.

    People We Meet on Vacation (Henry) x Yours Truly (Jimenez) x The Flatshare (O’Leary)

  • Perfectionistic Biz and adventure-seeking Gilbert met in nursing school, and despite their bordering-on-more-than-friends friendship, he disappeared without a word after graduation. When he waltzes back into her life—unwittingly renting her extra room and taking a job in her hospital’s pediatric ICU—the relationship she’s labeled Do Not Resuscitate is suddenly fighting for its life again.

    Someone call a Code Crash-Out: Biz might not survive this one.

  • Just Call if You Need Me is in its DRAFTING stage. Click HERE to see more!

  • Public Relations is an ADULT or NEW ADULT contemporary romance.

    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Reid) x How to Fake It in Hollywood (Wilder) x deuxmoi

  • After closeted sapphic actress, Faye Carmichael, is cancelled for “queerbaiting” in her breakout movie role, she seeks out a PR relationship with known lesbian and jaded former child star, Bianca Villaluz. As Bianca helps guide Faye through the secret world of fame, blind items, and crisis management, the line between reality and fiction begins to blur.

  • Public Relations is in its CONCEPTUAL stage. Click HERE to see more!

YA | ROMANCE | CLEVER | IRREVERENT | QUEER

NA | ROMANCE | NOSTALGIC | LIGHT

The Non-Stop Fun Machine

This is Not the End of the World

  • The Non-Stop Fun Machine is a NEW ADULT contemporary romance.

    Wildfire (Grace) meets Luck and Last Resorts (Grunder Ruiz)

  • Now in college and on the verge of Real Life, Lucy Swentek is determined to rehabilitate her reputation as an irresponsible delinquent, and she’s starting with her job at the Fogridge Sleepaway Camp ropes course. At least, that was the plan before she met her handsome new coworker and learned of his whole “reclaim my life after the painful disintegration of my relationship with my childhood sweetheart” quest. As she helps him check off Reclaim My Life list items, Lucy must decide what matters more to her: proving that she’s a responsible adult, or the stranger who somehow already sees exactly who she is.

  • The Non-Stop Fun Machine is in its DRAFTING stage. Click HERE to see more!

  • This is Not the End of the World is a YOUNG ADULT coming-of-age romance.

    Zombieland (2009) meets The Getaway List (Lord)

  • After they’re informed that a “THIS IS NOT A DRILL: INCOMING BALLISTIC MISSILE. TAKE SHELTER.” alert was, in fact, a drill, two best friends spend the remaining days of spring break doing a The World Isn’t Ending! bucket list road trip—and deciding if the secret item on both of their bucket lists (talking about their real feelings) is worth the risk. Because the world might not have ended but, if they ruin this friendship, their worlds will.

  • This Is Not The End of the World is in its CONCEPTUAL stage. Click HERE to see more!

Winnie and Ahmed Duel to the Death or Something

NA | YA | ROMANCE | PLAYFUL | SWOONY

  • Winnie and Ahmed Duel to the Death or Something is a YOUNG ADULT or NEW ADULT contemporary romance.

    Well Met (DeLuca) meets Long Story Short (Kaylor) meets A Knight’s Tale (2001)

  • Hear ye, hear ye: two exes meet on the [Medieval Times] battlefield in this exes-to-lovers romance. Can Winnie teach her ex boyfriend how to joust with breaking his bones or her own heart?

  • This book is in the DRAFTING STAGE. Please click HERE to read the full pitch!

Speculative/ Crossover

Cece TV

Last Time Around

ADULT | SFF ROMANCE | EMOTIONAL | OFFBEAT

ADULT | NA | ROMANCE | CLEVER | LIGHT

Fantasy

The Human Sacrifice’s Guide to Paper Folding

Felix the Unforgettable

ADULT | ROMANTASY | UNCONVENTIONAL | COZY 

MG | ADVENTUROUS | HEARTFELT | WHIMSICAL

Lying for Prophets

Lockwood

YA | PIRATES | ADVENTUROUS | HEISTY

YA | DARK | MYSTERIOUS | UNGOVERNABLE

  • Lying for Prophets is a YOUNG ADULT adventure fantasy.

    Our Flag Means Death x Terry Pratchett

  • On the day of his funeral, oracle/wanted criminal, Dalibor, gathers his former crew with plans for one last heist. In return, he promises them their wildest dreams, and a prophet never lies about the future… right?

  • Lying for Prophets was outlined and partially drafted before I put it on the back burner in 2019. It still holds a special place in my heart, and I often mine it for good lines.

    You can read the prologue HERE.

  • Lockwood is a YOUNG ADULT dark urban fantasy.

    Raven Boys x An Unkindness of Magicians

  • Gwen’s parents led and died for a revolution that would’ve exposed a secret society of elite magicians and brought magic to masses. After ten years of studying their coded journals, Gwen is ready to tear the whole system down with her bare hands, no matter the cost—to friend or enemy.

  • Lockwood is a complete manuscript that I shelved in 2019, after two years of querying. It was the first book I wrote that I thought was worth reading, and it was a very sad day when I finally put it away for good. It was for the best, though, because my next project was Wish You Weren’t Here.

    Click HERE to see more!

ADULT | THOUGHT-PROVOKING | BITTERSWEET

CROSSOVER | RIVETING | SMART | ABSURDIST

  • Last Time Around is an ADULT speculative fiction that explores grief, moving on, and the impossible ‘what if.’

    Groundhog Day (1993) x The Midnight Library (Haig) x Early Departures (Reynolds)

  • Celeste wakes up six years in the past, stuck reliving the day her brother died in a tragic suicide. She soon realizes she has the ability to keep preventing his death… as long as she remains stuck in the time loop.

  • Last Time Around is in its CONCEPTUAL stage. Click HERE to see more!

  • Cece TV is a crossover speculative fiction, bordering on satirical dystopian.

    Mixed media Truman Show reimagining x Illuminae (Kristoff/Kaufman) x Sadie (Summers)

  • Cece TV is a mixed media/epistolary retelling of the Truman Show that follows Cecelia Fairbanks as her picture-perfect life falls apart, exposing a truth that’s stranger than fiction and the lengths to which people go for good TV.

  • Cece TV is in its PROPOSAL stage. Click HERE to see more!

Ghost Town

Roulette World

  • Ghost Town is a NEW ADULT or ADULT speculative romance.

    Good Spirits (Borison) x Dead Romantics (Poston)

  • Ghost Town, New Jersey is a place where people go to die—literally. Anyone who passes away in Ghost Town returns as a spirit, still able to interact (and fall in love) with the living.

    And, because half the city’s population can’t ascend stairs or flip light switches, Ghost Town is hiring community planners to make the area more accessible for its disembodied residents. Ghostbusters need not apply!

  • Ghost Town is in its CONCEPTUAL stage. Click HERE to see more!

  • Roulette World is an ADULT speculative romance.

    The Time Traveler’s Wife (Niffenegger) x The Husbands (Gramazio) x Maybe This Time (Bastone)

  • A woman who keeps falling sideways through parallel universes and a man who seems to remember her in every life walk into a bar… and another bar… and another bar… and anoth—

  • Ghost Town is in its CONCEPTUAL stage. Click HERE to see more!

  • The Invisible Life of Addie Larue x Early Departures

    Felix the Unforgettable is a MIDDLE GRADE (or ADULT with some reworking) fantasy.

    I think this could especially appeal to young boys who don’t like to read and fantasy lovers of all ages.

  • Felix is cursed to be forgotten on his eleventh b; his twin sister, Ivy, is desperate to remember him. Together, they venture into the dangerous Memorealm, hoping to strike a deal with the merciless lord of Memories.

  • Felix the Unforgettable is in its DRAFTING stage.

    You can read part of the full synopsis HERE.

    It was originally drafted as a graphic novel. I’m more interested, now, in presenting it as a traditional middle grade, but I haven’t converted the draft to a novel format yet.

  • The Human Sacrifice’s Guide to Paper Folding is an ADULT or NEW ADULT romantasy.

    Spicy Ella Enchanted (2004) x The Spellshop (Durst) x gender-swapped Kate & Leopold (2001)

  • Magdalena’s life ended before she was even born—back when her mother, still a child, bargained away her first-born in order to get home from the Fae realms. After spending her entire life learning how to survive in the wilderness and kill her own dinner, Magdalena is hit with a different kind of culture shock when she’s spirited away to Fairhame, only to see Fairfolk carrying Target shopping bags and drinking Dutch Bros coffee.

  • The Human Sacrifice’s Guide to Paper Folding is in its CONCEPTUAL stage. Click HERE to see more!