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A taste of the things I'm working on in the book world...

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(on submission)

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 fantasy with disability rep

(in revision)

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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71,000-word adult literary fiction with disability rep and hints of magical realism, psychological thriller, and romance tones.

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Pinwheel Kids

(in drafting)

The Girl Who Rode Rainbows

Our perceptions are everything. When our narrator is forced to see the reality of a girl who uses a wheelchair, she searches for her feelings—should she be afraid? Sad? Nervous? Yet all she ever saw was a rainbow before. How will she face the girl now that she knows?  

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500-word picture book with disability representation

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