The Yellow House Postal Service, a novel

STATUS: In the Query Trenches

For readers who enjoy:

• emotionally intimate, character-driven fiction about grief, sisterhood, and the formative choices of early adulthood

• readers who enjoy fast-paced, coming-of-age, college-setting stories with witty banter and strong female leads

• fans of Sally Rooney, Rainbow Rowell, Meg Mason

After living like a recluse for eighteen months following her mother’s death, Amelia Allen enrolls in art school to rebuild her life, but her plan to heal through creativity is derailed by an increasingly co-dependent relationship with two fellow artists.

Amelia has spent a year and a half alone in her childhood home, surviving on handfuls of chocolate chips and Diet Coke. With her sister pestering her to move on, and her deferred enrollment at the local college about to expire, she must finally rejoin the real world, or face a continued existence where her only hobbies are watching middle schoolers as they wait at the bus stop and writing letters to her dead mother.

Soon Amelia is swept into the lives of flirtatious artist Joshua and his musician roommate, Ellis, and she feels joy for the first time in years. But when an explosive fight with her sister fractures their already fragile relationship, Amelia’s emotional dependence on Joshua and Ellis tightens into something unstable.

PAULINE IN BETWEEN, a novel

STATUS: Post Beta Reader Revisions and Rewrites

For readers who enjoy:

• character-driven fiction about mental illness and sibling bonds

• fast-paced speculative fiction with humor and surprising plot twists

• light portal fantasy

• cult-adjacent belief systems grounded in science and a little magic

After years of being labeled as bipolar and delusional for believing her sister disappeared into a parallel universe, thirty-year-old Pauline Cooper is recruited by an unusual woman to join a secret club of people who actually believe her. This group of empathic misfits is convinced that Pauline can sense connections between the worlds. They believe that with their abilities and a little string theory, they can open a portal to another dimension.

Dragging her brother into the mix, they both get tangled in a club that blurs the line between science and magic. The group gets more than they bargained for when their abilities become more than a theory, and the other dimensions weren’t what anyone expected.

Soon, darker motivations emerge within the club, and another person she loves goes missing. Paulie begins to question her reality and must get a handle on her own mind if she wants to get back to her loved ones.

THE CHOSEN ONES NEXT DOOR, a novel

STATUS: First Draft in Progress

MY APARTMENT IS FULL OF PETTY GHOSTS, a novel

STATUS: Outlined