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A taste of the things I'm working on in the book world...
RUTABAGAS DON'T BUILD TREEHOUSES
When 10-year-old wheelchair-user Rutabaga Rae falls through a magical treehouse blueprint,
she’s shocked to find a ship full of stranded pirates in a tree, uncertain mermaids, riddling
sphinxes, lost treasure, and helping them is the only way to get back home where her helicopter
parents are surely worried sick about her. Now, Ru will have to embrace her disability and
become the hero of the story, not despite her disability, but because of it.
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37,000-word middle grade grounded fantasy with disability representation
(querying)
The Things We Can(not)
Jolie can’t forget what she cannot remember—the car accident, her paralysis and wheelchair, even her dead mother. But once confronted with her past, she flees to the only place she can think of, the place her mother would have been: Paris. With a little help from Ali, a blind ex-pat refugee, she might just be able to see herself and her disability. But only if she’s brave enough to fully see her past for the first time again.
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72,500-word upmarket women's fiction with disability rep and hints of magical realism, psychological thriller, and romance tones.
(querying)
Mavis the Un-Maker
MAVIS THE UN-MAKER takes apart toys. She cuts them and hammers them, she glues them and sews them just for her friends. But when others gasp at her dismantled creations, will they keep her from showing the world that not everyone is made like a brand-new toy?
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650-word picture book with disability representation
(querying)
The Girl Who Rode A Rainbow
There once was a girl who rode on a rainbow.
The rainbow’s a chair, to help her where she goes.
But when Fifi says her wheelchair’s so WEIRD,
all turns to dark, a storm to be feared.
How will we know just what we should feel?
Because for so long, that rainbow was real.
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495-word rhyming picture book with disability representation
(querying)
Strolling Down the Forest Trail
Venturing onto a forest trail for the first time, a young wheelchair user discovers animals with unique adaptations that show her how to navigate the trail, understand her own capabilities, and evade an impending storm.
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495-word (+180 word back matter) STEM picture book with disability representation