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Written Works
Though my first
novel was only published last year, I've been writing for a while. If
you've taken a look at the YouTube recording of
my reading at Village Books in April 2010, then you'll know that I
wrote Solstice back in the
late '90s when I was a twenty-something Michigan transplant to Seattle
recently out of college and playing a lot of rec soccer. After I
finished my
Master's in 2007, I decided to pull Solstice
out of its
virtual folder and give it another pass.
In the dozen or so years since I penned that
first draft, I continued to write--stories, poems, essays, and
a trio of other novels, including two I am in the process of revising
for potential publication. Now that I've set up this
Web site to market my published work, I thought I might bring some of
my shorter works out into the light of day. Not everything features
queer characters, though most were written from a queer sensibility.
Which begs the familiar question--how do we define lesbian fiction?
But I'm not about to tackle such a weighty
topic here. Please browse through the titles
listed below. Links take you to full text in the case of any
stories or poems, synopses and excerpts for each novel. And if you're interested in more recent ramblings and musings, check out my Wordpress blog. Thanks for
your interest!
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Novels
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 Beautiful Game,
released
July
2011.
For Cam Wallace, an out lesbian soccer player on scholarship at San Diego University, life is sweet. Then she meets Jess Maxwell, potential all-American tennis player at SDU. As their friendship deepens, Cam begins to wonder why Jess holds her--and everyone else--at a distance. Convincing Jess to trust her, she soon learns, may prove more difficult than winning a national championship.
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 Leaving L.A.,
released
January
2011.
For
Eleanor
Chapin, L.A. is merely a stop between Boston and a long-awaited
Ph.D. program. But when retired movie star Tessa Flanagan offers her a
summer job as her daughter's nanny, Eleanor is tempted by more than
just the lucrative salary. There’s no reason not to take the job—after
all, she’ll be leaving L.A. soon.
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 Solstice,
released March 2010. Shaken from
her brother’s death, Sam Delaney has built a
carefully ordered
existence in Seattle. But when former high school soccer teammate Emily
Mackenzie re-enters her life, Sam must choose between order and chaos,
loss and acceptance.
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Stories
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 Edith and Appleby --
Set
in
New
York
City,
this
story depicts a dog-park friendship between
septuagenarian Edith Mullins, a retired concert pianist, and Generation
Y girl-band member Claudia Von Griffoen.
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 Tying
Chi --
In this story, also set in New York, transplanted Midwesterner
Jake Wilson recalls why his mother taught him never to look long and
hard into a
dark alley on the Lower East Side. Note: There's some dark humor in
this one, so consider yourself warned.
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Essays
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 My Proposition 8 Trial Response -- In this essay, I ruminate on the meaning of Judge Vaughn Walker's recent ruling on the Contitutional rights of gays and lesbians to marry, and interrogate the rhetoric against legalizing gay marriage as set forth by my sister-in-law's homophobic friend from California, a.k.a. Mr. Facebook.
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