Holidays can be a very stressful time for kids.  Yes, there’s Christmas with its promises of presents, but there’s always this threat hanging above your head:  be good or Santa will throw your presents in a fire and stamp on them until they turn into coal, which he will then put into your stocking to […]

Now (or soon) available at Amazon, B&N, Smashwords, Apple, Kobo, Powell’s, and more. What if cats were really there to guard your dreams? Lost in the Forest of Dreams, the dashing, handsome cat Ferntail must rescue his human girl from her horrible nightmares, nightmares that come from outside her mind. Will a mysterious and beautiful

Mr. Hightower snorted.  “At any rate, it’s only you, dear Rachael, that we need, not these others. They can go.” Returning home again after the terrible events at Xanadu House, Rachael Baptiste has learned not to trust humans…because they might be part of the Lighthouse Parents, a hostile group out to arrest and destroy the Exotics.

Rachael survived her adventures on The Floating Menagerie and went back to her normal life…except that her mom is still missing. Now she’s coming down with the Exotics virus herself and is changing into a half-human, half-animal Exotic, just like her friends. As a new Exotic, Rachael can’t control the change, so she travels to

Now available at B&N, Amazon, Smashwords, Apple, Kobo, Powell’s and more. I’m sorry to keep changing these covers on you guys…but I have to find a way to make kind of matching covers for all five books.  Don’t worry, this should be the last one.  I’m updating book #2 in two weeks and book #3 will come out soon

Nobody knows what really happened when Rachael Baptiste’s mom disappeared a week ago. So when Rachael’s second-grade classmate Raul tries to break into her mom’s computer only to be chased away by giant talking dogs, she follows him into the night and discovers that Raul—and her mom—have caught a magical sickness that lets them turn

Would you like a free copy?   The print version of Guinea Pig Apocalypse is up.  Yay!  You can order it online at Amazon or B&N, and probably a bajillion other online bookstores. However, I could use some reviews.  I have a giveaway going on at LibraryThing right now; you can scroll down or do a search for “guinea” to find it

You can get Guinea Pig Apocalypse at these online retailers, with more to come: Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords.  B&N had issues when I went to post the story so it’s running late, should be up tomorrow.  Amazon’s alllllmost there.  I can feel it. Pleeeeaase keep in mind that this is middle-grade fiction, ages 9-13 or so, and read this

  The Mighty Mountain of Theornin by De Kenyon Astra knows what she’s good at: thieving, tricking, and hitting people with rocks. Especially the mayor’s bullying son, after he makes fun of her. She also knows what she’s not good at: being a girl. Not the kind of girl that lives in the tiny mountain

This story’s exclusive to Amazon for now.  Click here to check it out; it’s free for now if you have Amazon Prime. The Boy Who Would Not Sleep by De Kenyon In the woods, Nickolas’s father tells him stories to pass the time as they cut down trees…but one story, he won’t tell. Not until