Fiction
I write gritty, heartfelt, sexy mysteries and urban fantasy. I love the twists and turns of both a good story and human connection. My characters are real people even when they’re in super-real situations. They love, lust, yearn, and strive. Most often, they’re also artists of one sort or another. If you’re into that, check out the work below.
Die by the Sword
Die By The Sword, is the first book in the Cassie Belmont Tarot Reader mysteries series. Cassie Belmont, a professional tarot card reader, works with the police to solve crimes in Washington DC. When someone starts killing people and leaving them looking like her tarot cards, Cassie has to find the killer before he strikes again.
Die By The Sword ( Order the eBook at Draft2Digital, Kobo, or for Nook!)
In a New York Minute
The first anthology of micro-fiction from the Vegan Writers of NYC, the book was released on February 21, 2023.
How do you write a story that’s exciting, meaningful, and profound in just ten minutes? Can you write one with great characters and exciting plots that will leave readers wanting more? The Vegan Writers of NYC decided to put these questions to the test.
With word prompts providing inspiration, they wrote stories that speak of the human experience. Step inside and perhaps some of those prompts will inspire you to write your own tale.
The Fiddler’s Talisman
The Fiddler’s Talisman: Book One of The Fairy Godmother Diaries
New York City is only a hop, skip, and Ley Line jump away from the Fairy Lands. And if anyone can make it there, it’s Fairy Godmother, Evie Songbottom.
Evie isn’t your childhood Fairy Godmother. She prefers whiskey to glitter, movies to wishes, and music to just about anything.
But she’ll need more than a bottle of Jameson and a bad attitude to guide her Charge, violin prodigy, Joanna Brennan. Born of fairy ancestors, Joanna caught her boyfriend cheating with her Juilliard roommate. Now, her magic-tinged sorrow is flooding New York with disaster.
Evie will have to navigate the treacherous landscape of Joanna’s wounded soul, and her own forbidden new love, before Joanna’s grief rips apart the fabric of all the worlds.
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The Piano’s Key
The Piano’s Key: Book Two of The Fairy Godmother Diaries
Against all odds, Evie Songbottom and Joanna Brennan defeated the Bane Zeke Dunne and the Ramrocks. As a bonus, Evie earned her Level 4 Fairy Godparent stripes. But now, they face new challenges. While Joanna becomes a guide to her own students, Evie leaves New York and her love, Daniel, to continue her training in the Fairy Lands.
After Daniel is attacked and left for dead, Evie returns to New York to find that he has no memory of her or of their lives together. She vows to protect him while he embarks on a new life without her.
Foes, old and new, surround Evie as she tries to help Daniel and guide her new charge to his destiny. When a terrifying new danger threatens the world, bonds are destroyed, alliances are forged, and good and evil clash in an explosive battle that will decide the fate of both worlds.
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Works in Progress
The Gemma Blackthorne True Crime Podcaster Mysteries series. Meet Gemma Blackthorne, a true crime podcaster who solves ancient mysteries (like Jamestown, the Beale Ciphers, or the Dancing Plague of 1518), and she’s funded by a shadowy group called the Need to Know Collective. But her greatest case? That’s the one she’s determined to solve or die trying. The first part of the first novel is available here.
Non-Fiction
Speak From Within
Engage, Inspire, and Motivate The People In Your Life
Become a great communicator!
Based on my Speak to Succeed workshop, the book helps you build the confidence to engage and inspire any audience. Then, you explore how to communicate authentically in meetings, interviews, and presentations.
Here are the supplemental materials to the book by chapter.
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Confident Communication
If you want to speak so you engage, inspire, and motivate people in meetings, interviews, presentations, get this book!
With it, you will become a confident and effective communicator. You will learn physical, emotional, and mental techniques to engage and persuade.
And you will learn methods to beat stress and fear so you can authentically connect with any audience.
Win the Day: Daily Guidance on Focus, Success, And Living Your Best Life
Win the Day is an interactive book. Use it daily and get guidance and a call to action to increase your productivity, self-awareness, and confidence. Build observation, empathy, communication skills. Increase your efficiency. Plan more effectively and live with purpose and on purpose.
Choose a number to receive today’s focus in this exclusive, interactive book. Learn how the focus applies to your life today. Each entry includes a call to action to help you live your best life.
How does it work? It’s super simple. Go to one of the selection pages. Tap on a symbol, and the book will open today’s coaching guidance. You will receive practical, actionable steps on how to get the most out of your day and build your best life. What could be easier than that? If you prefer, you can get your number below. Come back here daily and receive your number.
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The Functional Tarot
Learn how to gain the confidence and skills to read tarot cards.
If you’re here that means that you want to learn how to read tarot cards. You want to know how to use them to gain insight and clarity and to deepen your knowledge of yourself and your world.
If you want a practical take on how to learn the cards, discover the most insightful meanings, and come up with accurate interpretations, you’re in the right place. If you want to do it from a functional perspective, then you’re even more welcome.
This book accompanies the Functional Tarot deck, but you can use it to read with other decks. Additionally, each description contains the card’s notable symbols and a list of related cards to strengthen your intuitive reading skills.
To be a reader, you have to trust yourself, your instincts, and your intuition. This book will build your skills and empower you.
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Get Your Stuff Done!
The Easy-to-Use Journal and Project Planner That Will Help You Finish What You Start
It’s simple. It’s basic. And it works!
Figure out what you want to accomplish for the next 12 weeks. Write down your vision (your goals). Identify the projects you’ll need to finish to achieve those goals. Break down the projects into manageable tasks and do them one at a time. As you finish each task, mark it done. Step-by-step, you’ll complete each project. Then, you’ll move on to the next one. Before you know it, you’ll have achieved your goals.
You’ll also assess your state and check in with yourself daily. That way you’ll know where you stand, how you feel, and what you want to do next.
And you’ll do all this with an attitude of gratitude. With a clear vision, concrete goals, and gratitude in your heart, you’ll make amazing things happen!
Life Elements
Transform Your Life With Earth, Air, Fire, and Water
Forge your path to a fulfilling, bountiful, joyful life. Many of us are seeking a different way to live – one that is peaceful, mindful, open, and active. In our search, we combine ancient and modern traditions. We merge cutting-edge technology with yoga or Tai Chi. We employ ancient meditation techniques and elemental energies and reinterpret them. We move forward; we decide our path, and here we access the source for a peaceful, joyful, and productive life.
Your bonus for visiting this page: The latest meditations from my first book, “Life Elements” are now up on youtube.
- Shielding: Use your own power to shield yourself from negative energy with this effective meditation.
- Credit Yourself With How Far You’ve Come – Meditation to Honor Yourself
- Into the Ocean – Meditation to access emotions and intuition
- Into the Flames – Meditation to gain energy and confidence
- Into the Clouds – Meditation to gain clarity
- Into the Earth – Excellent grounding meditation
- Meditation To Your Power Place – Fantastic confidence-builder
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Midlife On Fire
This anthology I’m in reached #1 in two Amazon categories!
New York State of Crime
Anthology from Sisters In Crime (Tri-State, New York Chapter)
The sixth anthology from the New York/New Jersey, Connecticut chapter of Sisters in Crime was a Derringer Award finalist and is available for purchase on Amazon.
Short Stories
In William Shakespeare’s play, “Hamlet,” the Lady Ophelia dies a tragic death. But, what would have happened if she had lived? How might things have turned out differently? What was her life like outside of the scope of Hamlet’s tragedy? See the world at Elsinore Castle through Ophelia’s eyes as she attempts to survive and to change history. Seamlessly interwoven with the original play, this story traces Ophelia if she had survived her fall into the river.
The first in a series of “If She Had Lived” stories, this story is easily accessible to everyone and especially those who love Shakespeare.
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