My Novels

This is the collective page for my two novels, and, in time, any that follow them.

 

The Chosen

Facts: Dystopia, currently at 42,000 words (after I cut 18,000)

Status: second draft, incomplete ending which I'm mulling over and will edit this summer


With conformity, there's always a price. At the age of seventeen, the best of the generation is chosen through a test. The rest are sent Elsewhere. When Kera gets into the upper class, but her good friend does not, will she choose to try to save him if it becomes a matter of survival? Armed with only her best friend Nori and her instincts, can she defy the community and choose to die to spare someone else? This novel brings up the question: What do you do, if there are no second chances?

 

The Tinkers

More facts: sci-fi dystopia, 64,000 words

Status: finished first draft; awaiting fall revision


For Dem Stonewall, Paring is just a part of life. Give the patient anesthesia, inject, Paralyze, repeat; after all, they’re too old to do any good for society. When Luria, a sixteen-year-old girl, walks into his life angry from her mother’s “paring” several months before, he is forced to reevaluate his morals. If he chooses to deviate from the Corporation, he will suffer the fate that he has given to many others.

When I Liked Converse
A contemporary Christian-fiction YA novel
Status: planning (I say as if I plan), NaNo '13 novel

Anna Nicholls feels invisible, and that's just the way she likes it. After her brother, Aaron, dies, she blames herself. After all, in crowded high-school halls, junior year, it's everyone for herself, Anna's friends included. When Finn, an old classmate, turns up in her classes, he offers a chance to listen. As she confides in him, they grow inseparable. When an event breaks them apart due to Finn's darker side, she'll have to trust herself--and her God.