A Journey with a Rookie Writer.
In the works...
Picture books:
President Taft's Pet Pauline- How do you lose a cow?
Hairy Bear- A simple story about paying it forward.
Awesome Lawson- He'd rather HAVE adventures than READ about them.
The Loud Leprechaun- Shaina's Fairy friends never let her play. Why? Because she crashes, dances, and yells. The first story in a three-part series.
Boxy Bob- Boxy Bob wants to deliver happiness by being filled with dazzling, flashy Christmas stuff. But his cargo continually gets crushed.
Misfit Mosquito-a mosquito's Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer story.
Not a Book Girl-A spunky eight-year-old escapes into her overactive imagination to avoid reading books of any kind.
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Middle Grade Manuscripts:
Puzzling Brotherhood-At Camp Riddle the brothers, Boden and Hudson are on rival teams and battling to be Camp Champs while taking sibling rival to a whole new level.
Quilt Rider-Landry's dead Grammy ships her a trunk of magical quilts & a diary. A time travel historical fiction story.
Rule of Three-a contemporary realistic fiction where Billie, a 13 year old girl is left to raise her two younger brothers while coping with her dysfunctional parents.
Fiendish Fairy Tales- the not-so-happy stories behind popular fairy tales that likely inspired the authors.
Published! This middle grade historical fiction from doodleandpeck.com
Keepers of the Secret Code: This is a coming of age story set during the Antebellum South Era in Charleston, South Carolina, about secret messages revealed through quilt patterns used to help enslaved people escape on the Underground Railroad.
(based on the family legacy of Teresa R. Kemp, co-author)
School Visits and Reviews
Author Visits:
Anderson Elementary in Union Public Schools
Ator Elmentary in Owasso Public Schools
Bixby North Intermediate in Bixby Public Schools
Jefferson Elementary in Union Public Schools
Lincoln Christian Intermediate at Lincoln Christian School
Vandever Elementary in Broken Arrow Schools
BA Historical Museum in the Rose District of Broken Arrow
Green Country Quilt Guild in Tulsa
Rivendell Books and Baubles in Broken Arrow
Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa
Keepers of the Secret Code Reviews:
"An incredible ...journey of researching, writing, editing and likely shedding tears when frustrated to compose such a beautiful story. Your book truly capitvated me and was an enlightenment of details I didn't know."
--Glenda Buttery, former teacher
"I was moved to tears several times while reading this work because the authors lead the reader on a beautiful, yet excruciatingly difficult journey. Yet there was joy in this book as well, joy in the love and compassion his family shared and in the moments of sincere and giving love, generosity and the strength of the human spirit. I hope that all people have the opportunity to read this work, to feel the reality so artfully protrayed and to learn."
--Amy Brewer, Agent at Metamorphosis Literary Agency
"I've read Keepers of the Secret Code. Excellent book and very well written." Ms. Krystal Rogers, private school, 6th grade teacher