A Girl and her Dragon: A Life in Four Parts
Writers of the Future Contest
(Unofficial illustration - official WOTF illustration coming in April 2026)
Writers of the Future Contest
(Unofficial illustration - official WOTF illustration coming in April 2026)
A GIRL AND HER DRAGON: A LIFE IN FOUR PARTS
Across decades, a girl grows into a journalist, activist, and outlaw—her lifelong devotion to a captive dragon never dimming as she battles a fearful world to return him to the sky.
Can't wait until 4/26 to see it in print?
Me Neither!
FIND my article on WICKED LOCAL. For those non-Massachusetts residents, WICKED is regional slang for an extreme superlative, ie, "The traffic was wicked bad at rush hour on the Mass Pike today."
READ my latest MG speculative fiction appearing in the NOV 2025 online issue of EMBER: A Journal of Luminous Things. "Astro-Nerd" is the story of 13-year-old lunar refugee, Amari, whose family vacation to Earth goes very, very wrong.
WATCH my 45-minute interview with host Joe Montaldo and Publisher John Goodman on the Writers of the Future contest and my winning short story on YouTube.
And I'll SEND YOU my humorous flash SF story, "Table for Four"
You can send me a message or ask me a general question using this form.
I will do my best to get back to you soon!
TRUE OR FALSE:
It is harder to type out a 100,000 word novel with your arm in a sling than with two working arms.
I wrote my first book after I flipped my bicycle one summer and broke my arm. I was never a fast typist, so one-handed did not slow me down AT ALL! And not being able golf gave me time to write.
(Some people who have seen me golf might say I could never really play to begin with, so why didn't I start writing sooner--but those people are mean, and I don't listen to them)
I am spending more energy on my fiction than on my autobiography, but I PROMISE I will give you more of the inside scoop someday on my origin story.

"The Rainmaker" 21 FUTURES Financial Fallout MAR 2025
"Table for Four." Witcraft Humor Contest, Honorable Mention AUG 2024
”Heads or Tails” EARTH 2100 Other Worlds Ink Publishing APR 2024
“Revenge of the Antmen” DRAGON GEMS WINTER 2024. Water Dragon Publishing JAN 2024
"Going Native" HAVOK OCT 2021 online Casting Call: Season 6 Anthology APR 2022
"Leviathan, Inc." SURGE. Dragon Soul Press. APR 2022
“Stockholm, 2066” BRAIN GAMES: STORIES TO ASTONISH. Third Flatiron Publishing. OCT 2020.
“Bigger and Better Things” MONSTROSITIES ANTHOLOGY, Third Flatiron Publishing. MAR 2018.
“Final Revision” Daily Science Fiction. NOV 2016.

"A Girl and Her Dragon: A Life in Four Parts." WRITERS OF THE FUTURE ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME 42. Galaxy Press. Set for release in APR 2026

“Thirty Minutes or Else.” HORROR FOR HIRE ANTHOLOGY: SECOND SHIFT, Emerald Bay Books. MAY 2020.


"Due Diligence" STARRY EYED PRESS First Contact Anthology FEB 2025
"Nomophobia" DARK HARE PRESS Year 6 Anthology JAN 2025
"You Are What You Eat." 101 Words DEC 2024
“Entry Denied” SPACE STATION DUTY-FREE: A Drabble Anthology Hiraeth Publushing NOV 2023
“Every Dog Will Have his Day.” 365 Tomorrows SEP 2020
“Mother’s Day, 2.0.” The Arcanist NOV 2019.“
Timing is Everything.” Everyday Fiction NOV 2018
“Buyer’s Remorse.” Speculative 66. APR 2018 (Issue 19, pg 12)
“One Way to Deal with Writer’s Block.” Fifty-word Stories. MAR 2016

Querying, Querying, Querying ...
WRITERS OF THE FUTURE, VOLUME 42 release date is April 16, 2026!
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