I write for my job and for fun.
The + is because my very first novel was bad. Really bad. It doesn't count.
The + is for all the stories that aren’t published.
Tristen would do anything to avoid going outside. The bugs sting, the snakes are poisonous, the heat will kill you if the cold doesn’t, and bodies of water? Forget it. Tristen likes it best indoors, deep in his online world where it’s safe, with his online friends. Something he has a hard time with IRL.
But Tristen is in trouble at school again, and the principal is threatening to kick him out of this third school in two years. His mom believes the answer is to get Tristen off the games and in touch with nature and his Dene roots. This means Tristen has to spend a week to a culture camp in the wilderness. It’s his worst nightmare!
And at first it is a nightmare—no internet, no phone reception, no Bepsi!—and Tristen has no idea how to do any of the skills the other kids seem to do easily. But soon, with some surprising new friends and a few patient teachers, and a little help from technology, Tristen begins to think he might be able to hack this nature stuff after all.
With illustrations by the amazingly talented Rhael McGreggor.
When someone secretly signs Belinda Houle—the school’s most introverted kid—up to audition for a school play, Belinda turns to her best friend and resident witch, Sally, for a spell. A spell for confidence. Except it feels more like a curse! What follows the ritual is comical series of tragedies, from makeup allergies, to losing her chemically straightened hair, accidentally eating dog treats, and more.
Now everyone stares at her all the time, including her friend-turned-nemesis, Chloe. To break the spell, Belinda must finally find the guts to face her fears, act in front of an audience and take a shot at doing what she loves.
Set in a small Saskatchewan town with more dogs than people, MORTIFIED will appeal to fans of DORK DIARIES, DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, and kids who enjoy comics and funny MC novels.
With illustrations by the amazingly talented Rhael McGreggor.
SUPERS follows a twelve-year-old boy who is mistakenly sent to villain school instead of superhero school.
On the day of the annual superpower screening tests, nice-guy Emmett surprises everyone when he scores so high that he blows up the machine. Too bad he’s wrongly classified as an evil-doer and shipped away to villain school. Meanwhile, his gifted little brother Thomas is welcomed into superhero school.
Bullies at villain school pick on Emmett because he’s socially awkward and doesn’t have a superpower yet. Things get serious when Veyda Malus, the world’s most powerful supervillain, wants Emmett to join her in destroying Thomas’s new school and everyone in it. In order to survive villain school, Emmett must embrace his differences, find his superpower, and save superhero school and the brother he loves from a gang of angry, rejected villains.
How do you control a superpower that appears out of nowhere?