Novels
Parallelogirl
Charlotte and her best friend, Eleanor, are the same person—in different universes. They talk through a portal only they can see, a portal that Charlotte’s parents think is a hallucination. They worry she doesn’t have any “real” friends. Charlotte thinks there’s nothing worse than being treated like she’s broken just because she has a not-so-imaginary friend—until she sees the horrible way Eleanor is treated at school. She realizes that the portal has ruined both their lives.
The girls decide to switch worlds and try to solve each other’s problems: Eleanor will try to convince Charlotte’s parents that she’s real, and Charlotte will try to stop Eleanor’s bullies. In Eleanor’s world, everyone has superpowers, including the bullies. One of them is superhumanly lucky, so they never get in trouble, and another has scared the whole school into keeping away from Eleanor and now Charlotte. To make matters worse, nobody believes Charlotte in this world either, and Eleanor’s not acting like her friend anymore. The only way Eleanor will agree to switch back is if Charlotte stops the bullying for good, and the only way to do that might be with the help of some super friends. If she can’t convince at least a few kids to talk to her and stand with her against the bullies, she may be stuck in this world for the rest of her life.
Polygone (Parallelogirl 2)
Charlotte Ashdown keeps losing people she cares about. First, one of her portals disappears, and no one knows why. Charlotte is still reeling when her friend Nick’s little sister goes missing. While searching for her, Charlotte and her father find a clue that points to none other than Mr. Jacobsen, the blackmailer whose power Charlotte accidentally broke when she stood up to him last year.
Charlotte is still inexperienced with her power, having barely begun lessons on the twelve parallel worlds and her future as an exchanger. With the nearest other exchanger thousands of miles away and not even speaking her language, Charlotte may be all alone against a very dangerous foe, unless she can work with her friends to once again defeat a bully.
Murder on the Edmonton Rose
After failing to make the major leagues back on Earth, Sparky La Sal has one last chance to save herself and her granny from destitution: leave her home behind for a scholarship to play division II baseball on a backwater planet. To secure passage, Sparky’s forced to take a job vacmopping toilets on a swanky space cruise ship.
One night, cleaning the water park takes a sinister turn when Sparky stumbles across a body in the pool. But the ship has just entered a wormhole, cutting off all communication with the outside universe, and the security team has been forced to quarantine to contain a mysterious outbreak of a deadly virus.
Now the only ones standing between the murderer and their next victim are Sparky, her handsome, unnervingly open partner who is also a prime suspect, and the micromanaging ship AI. But even the AI isn’t safe—someone’s tampered with its ability to recall the very information Sparky needs. Now Sparky must draw on a knack for sleuthing she didn’t know she had and catch the killer before getting caught herself, or she could lose her job, her future, or even her life.
Short Fiction
An Exclusive with Sorceress Becki Edwards-Petersen
A reporter at Famous magazine interviews the most successful sorceress of our time and leaves with more than she expected.
The New Neighbors
Alien refugees move into Clara’s trailer park. She begins to befriend them, and when their presence becomes problematic to the rest of the world, she must decide whether her voice, which is so soft it’s often ignored, can be strong enough to save her new friends.
Polyester Pantsuit
In a world where everyone wears customizable holosuits, Heydon meets a pretty woman who still wears real vintage clothing.
Narrative Poem
“The Suicide of Brunhilda Mackleby” was published in Leading Edge magazine in January 2015.