A Flight of Angels

*A YALSA Top Ten Pick for Great Graphic Novels for Teens*  Now available in paperback, and it’s pretty flipping beautiful. Or stay classy with A FLIGHT OF ANGELS hardcover version. “Occasionally someone executes a standard storytelling device with such dazzling skill that it reminds you why that device became standard in the first place… [A Flight of Angels]… [read]

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Backwards

Travel Backwards… *Winner of the Colorado Authors League Book Award* *Finalist for the Colorado Book Award* *Finalist for the Crystal Kite Award* *LitPick 5 Star Book Review Award* It was Saturday, November 15th, but I didn’t know that. I wouldn’t understand the strange countdown of days that formed my existence until later. All I knew… [read]

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The Namer of Spirits

 A thrilling steampunk eco-fantasy for ages 9 & up!         Amazon #1 New Release in Children’s Environment and Ecology Books! *American Fiction Awards Winner!* *A 2021 “Best Book Awards” Children’s Fiction Finalist!* ★★★★★ “The Namer of Spirits is among the best of its kind!” —Literary Titan *A LitPick 5-Star Book Review Award… [read]

The Last Panther

What is a species worth? *Nautilus Book Award Winner!* *Colorado Book Award Winner!* *CAL Book Award Winner!* *A “Best Book of the Year“!* *A Southern Living “Best New Books for Kids” pick!* *Recommended by Florida Teachers and National Geographic!* *Green Earth Honor Book!*              “I loved this book, and I… [read]

The Secret to Lying

What happens when your life becomes a lie?  *Colorado Book Award Winner* *Texas Library Association Teen Reading List Selection* *Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Awards Selection*  E-book, paperback, and audiobook (read by Nick Podehl) now available! “Engrossing and entertaining…  a great read.”  —Publishers Weekly “An artful blurring between reality and fantasy, The Secret to Lying masterfully delves into one teen’s… [read]

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The Traitor King

The Manannan family secret is about to be revealed… *Colorado Book Award Finalist* Now available on Kindle and Nook for under five bucks! Or check out the new paperback edition. “You MUST read this book.”  —TeensReadToo.com (starred) “Humor, menace, and mystery suffuse this fast-paced tale… New surprises and plot twists keep readers enthralled, because nothing -librarians, skeletal pursuers, or hard-drinking dads-… [read]

Get published in ten (easy?) steps

I’ve written a book, now how do I get it published? (I get asked this question a lot, so I thought I’d try to answer it here in ten easy steps.) 1) First off, congratulations on writing a book! Seeing your vision through to the end, sticking with your characters for a few hundred pages, and […]

Writing Advice Part I

Here it is, the best piece of writing advice I ever got: Write the story you most want to read. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But you’d be amazed by how few people actually do this. For years, I didn’t. I wrote the stories I thought would please my teachers. The stories I thought would impress […]

Finding a Writer’s Group

Every professional writer I know works with a writing group. So if you want to write and publish books (or stories, poems, or essays), probably the single best thing you can do is find a good writing group to work with. So how do you find a writing group? 1) Get involved with some of […]