The Legion’s Warrior
Genre: Young Adult to New Adult Bildungsroman, Nautical Quest, Sword and Sorcery, Low Fantasy with Military Elements
Status: Completed, Unpublished
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader meets mythical lore and civil genocide.
Sage Austeyn becomes the youngest Leader of the Tesani Legion when its rivals, the Kovans, led by Korragos Lacroix, betray their peace treaty and attack their army, resulting in the death of her brother and the permanent infirmity of her father. When an incurable disease strikes her people, the chance to search for a mythical stone that can cure all wounds and illnesses arises: Idalia, the Stone of Misfortune. The nautical quest for it brings Sage and her warriors closer to death in more ways than one: mythical creatures, dark magic, and bitter betrayal cast a harsh shadow on their every movement. Sage needs to search the oceans and find the stone in time to save her people from elimination.
First Human and Last Human: Books 1 and 2 of The Divine Elements Duology
Genre: Young Adult to New Adult Historical Bildungsroman, Alternative History, Climate, Low Fantasy
Status of First Human: Completed, Unpublished/Status of Last Human: Draft, Unpublished
Biblical lore meets Avatar: The Last Airbender
First Human: Unaware that she is the sole Human, Alpha wants answers from her family about why they are so different from the elemental Natesseran communities nearby. When another environmental disaster occurs, Alpha finally learns the truth, first from her family and eventually by the vile Father Jasper, who blames the rumors of the earth’s end by its Creator on her existence and will do anything to eliminate its cause.
Last Human: Omega is disgruntled by the reality of the world but is soon thrust into an unknown future when he is ripped away from everything he’s ever known, trained to fight spiritual and living armies alike, and viewed by his new family as the sole person destined to defy The Creator on the forewarned Day of Reckoning. Without his unit, Aqua, Skylar, Kindling, and Violet, Omega is sure to fail at learning the impossible: Total Kinesis and how to prevent the end of the world.
Diamond Necklace
Genre: Young Adult Bildungsroman, Historical Low Fantasy
Status: Draft, Unpublished
The Lord of the Rings meets empaths and witches in historical America.
Can the death of a loved one drive those they leave behind to the brink of insanity? Can the comfort of treasured amulets, invaluable in cost but priceless in sentimentality, be a true talisman, against the ever-present shadows of grief and darkness that stalk a family shrouded in destiny? Empaths and Dischargers magic, spirits and shadows, energy and dream interpretation, witches and amulets encompass this historical fantasy dipped in mystery.
The Book of Garden Spells
Genre: Tween to Young Adult Bildungsroman, Magical Realism, Portal Low Fantasy
Status: Outline, Unpublished
Earth-bending from Avatar: The Last Airbender meets garden magic, fairies, and fantastical quests.
An ancient, leather-bound book is passed down throughout the generations of a family imbibed with rare garden magic (efflorescence). Every new child is trained to use their gift wisely, to grow plants and carve rocks with gentle respect for all things nature and the goddess Mother Earth. When a frayed page is discovered wedged behind another in the back of the book, the forgotten spell it reveals brings danger to the gardener who grows it, prompting a journey that leads to the discovery of the fairies that begot this magical family and a plot by a fierce ancient enemy to end them all.
Raindrops of Tears: The Collected Poems
Genre: Poetry
Status: Completed, Self-Published
A collection of poems from tween years to college.
Composed and designed over the span of many years, the themes of this portfolio of poetry include nature, Christianity, friendship, sorrow, love, history, grief, self-identity, and so much more. The progress of the author’s craft is also its own theme, how the blending together of contrast and juxtaposition provides variety to the beauty of art and life.
Redemption of the Forest and The Noble Quest for the Shiny Object (co-authored with Sarah Harman)
Genre: Children’s Poetry, Children’s Fantasy
Status: Completed, Unpublished
A two-part story for children, one told in rhyming couplets, the other in short prose.
Redemption: A gentle wood fairy laments the destruction of her home when a logging company bulldozes the forest. A tiny bird named Sweet helps her find peace and the chance for new growth.
Noble Quest: A very curious little worm named Robert sees something shiny in the distance and travels great distances to figure out what has so enthralled him.
Long Live Education: A Teacher’s Love Letter to Learning and Long Live Literacy: A Librarian’s Love Letter to Libraries and Bookshops
Genre: Young Adult to Adult Non-Fiction/Personal Narrative
Status: Outline, Unpublished
The role of education and books in the development of society for the better, along with the author’s personal experience working as a teacher and as a librarian.
Long Live Education: A detailed expose that focuses on my experience, negatively and positively, as a public and private school educator in the US and abroad, on the development of the student as they progress through their education, and the importance of the subjects and its teachers on the student. Dispersed throughout the book will be short lapses into the memory of the author’s experience in the school system as a student—>neighborhood and church children’s department babysitter—>tutor—>educational intern—>public school substitute teacher—>regular education public school elementary teacher—>volunteer ESL teacher—>private school substitute teacher—>English teacher in Latin America—>tutor at a learning center.
Long Live Literacy: A detailed expose on the importance of libraries and bookshops in a community. It focuses on the importance of free, affordable, or accessible local resources of any interest or need that is vital to the betterment of the citizen. Dispersed throughout the book will be short lapses into the memory of the author’s experience at public libraries in Autauga County and Montgomery County, Alabama.