The world can wait

Today I'm talking about three of my books - mainly because they are a series and a couple of the characters have their own grown up books now. More about those in another post at some point. But if you really want to know it's Dark Lake and the as yet waiting to be published Christmas Time in London Town. The Signal Me series is designated Young Adult, but that doesn't mean that grown up's can't read them. I personally love YA fiction - and anyone who says they are too old for YA stuff, yet reads certain wizard or sparkly vampire books, need to think again! This series goes back years. Draft one was a school English project when I was 14. I still have the original copy, handwritten in fountain pen with the really awful pictures I drew to illustrate it. Over the years it changed it's name from the original Island in the Sun, to The Price You Pay, to a dozen other things, before we finally decided to divide it into three and call them after call signs. ...

Suburban Dangers Sixteen-year-old Kaki Jones lives a normal life in suburbia. She makes good grades, runs on the cross-country team, and helps care for her younger brothers and sisters. Her younger brother, Brandon is the troubled child. He parties, fights at school, keeps photos of girls on his cell phone, and runs into trouble with the police. ​ But Kaki harbors a secret. After meeting cool girl Sydney Diaz, Kaki’s life is forever changed.  Now, she’s a sophomore by day and a commodity sold at the hands of gang members by night. Living a double life and controlled by threats of violence against her family, Kaki sees no chance of escape. When parents look the other way and strangers offer more affection than a father, God’s deliverance is the only answer. E-book available May 12. In print June 1. my review. also on goodreads. Wow. I'm lost for words having read this one. Although a YA read, the book is written from both c...

Blurb: An ordinary California teenager, Delli Willis finds herself in some kind of dreamscape whenever she drifts off to sleep. 1692, in the hotbed of the Salem Witch Trials. There, she’s Deliverance Wyllys, struggling against accusations and suspicion as well as the appearance of a mysterious dark-haired young man with strange tales of his own. Back in her own world, parallels with the past abound. She meets a real-life mysterious neighbor, handsome Gabriel. Is he her present? Her future? Or her past? She’s eager to share him with her circle of friends but fingers point, jealousies surge. Lies cast, sides taken. A modern-day witch hunt collides with 1692 in ways Delli never dreamed. Standing up to bullies tightens Delli’s faith in God, Who pulls her through some trials of her own. Excerpt:     Deliverance was listening to forbidden music in a time of fear and death. She was in a place she had not known to exist before this minute.  All of t...

Book Blurb – THE PEOPLE IN THE PARK Lauren Moffit is privileged and overprotected by her wealthy parents.  She is one of the few African American students in a prestigious prep school in a predominately white neighborhood.  The world is her oyster.  Nothing can prepare her for the devastating scandal that rocks her world when her father is charged with investment fraud.  Spoiled and self-centered, she struggles to keep her head high.  But it’s not until she hears the stories of the people in the park, where she takes her daily run, that Lauren realizes she can rise above her family “situation.” Book Excerpt – The People In The Park With newspaper in hand, from the garage I pushed open the mudroom door.  Mrs. Robinson, our cook, had the week off, cruising the Caribbean with her sister.  Usually when I reached this area, smells of dinner wafted from the kitchen.  Today I didn’t smell anything, which was unusual because on Mrs. Ro...