About The Lights — It’s winter break and Molly Monroe is content to enjoy her town’s annual Festival of Lights with her girlfriend Chelsea at her side. But almost immediately after the lights go up, the town’s children begin to act strangely, especially Molly’s own brother, Roger. When their next-door neighbors are killed in a […]
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Past Imperfect – Deleted Scene
Sometimes when writing a novel, you have to kill your darlings. And this was the case for me with Past Imperfect. Ana Espinosa-Lawson is one of my favorite characters in the series. She’s morally gray and goes through quite a journey to find her own happiness. One of her flaws is her skepticism. She doubts […]
Grrrls on the Side wins bronze!
Grrrls on the Side is a 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Bronze Award winner for Young Adult Fiction. Description: The year is 1994 and alternative is in. But not for alternative girl Tabitha Denton; she hates her life. She is uninterested in boys, lonely, and sidelined by former friends at her suburban high […]
Let’s do the time warp again!
Well, the cat is out of the back, so to speak. This August, readers will finally get the exciting conclusion to my 2016 novel, In the Present Tense, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year bronze winner for Science Fiction. Past Imperfect picks up where Present Tense left off: with Miles and Bethany on the […]
Contest time!
It’s Day of the Girl and National Coming Out Day, so thought I’d give away a book featuring my bisexual badass heroine Tabitha. Head on over to Twitter to RT this post and follow me. You could win a copy of Grrrls on the Side! Want a copy of GRRRLS ON THE SIDE? ’90s punk, […]
What’s your ’90s Zine called?
Grrrls on the Side is full of excerpts from the characters’ zines. These blog-style print booklets have great names like “Chubby Bunny” and “Material Grrrl.” Want to know what your ’90s zine would be called? In the graphic above, just find the word associated with your zodiac sign (#1), then the last digit of your […]
In the Present Tense is Foreword INDIES finalist
In the Present Tense is a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist for LGBT fiction and Science Fiction. Description: Miles Lawson goes to sleep dreaming of a future with his boyfriend Adam, but wakes to find he is married to Ana, an acquaintance from high school. When he learns he has been […]
Playlist for your next riot
Girl-fronted punk bands gave birth to the Riot Grrrl movement. As a result, music played an important role in its culture and the writing of Grrrls on the Side. This playlist is inspired by both the characters from Grrrls and the time period in which it is set—some songs are more modern and others are […]
The many ‘flavors’ of bisexuality
I’m going to be blunt here. I only came out as bi about a year ago. Just one year. 365 days, give or take. For the three and a half decades prior, I identified as straight. And not just publicly. I really and truly believed it. For more than 35 years, I thought that, despite […]
Revolution (21st century) girl style
“The early ‘90s were a difficult time to be a woman, especially a young one, and too little has changed in the intervening decades.” — Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution This quote is the epigraph to my latest novel, Grrrls on the Side, and I chose […]