When I was six, my mother read me The Velveteen Rabbit. The stuffed rabbit who wanted so badly to be Real showed me something I couldn't put to words yet: I wanted to be Real, too. Stories, especially books, have given me so many ways to become seen, to be known and understood, to know other people, to live in their worlds, to see and love being real and being human. So it's a joy to me to now be the author of the novels The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell, How We Fall, and upcoming others, as well as "Godzilla Girls," a F/F Halloween story set in Sioux Falls, SD. I write young adult thrillers with strong love stories and twists of the strange and unusual. Story is a huge piece of my purpose in life, so I'm also the talent manager at book packager Working Partners and I coach authors at the Breakthrough Writers' Boot Camp. It's all a way for me to keep learning what it means to be Real.
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