Diamond Gardens
Complete novel at 70,000 words.
Robbie was raised on Diamond Gardens Trailer Park's dirt packed roads and played on the rust pitted playground and burnt-out meth lab in back. He gets by hauling scrap, moving people's shit and drinking PBR and Tiny's shine. In the affluent suburbs nearby, Sarah, back from the University of Florida, is found naked, tied to her childhood bed dead. Robbie is the cops' first suspect. He was the last known person to see her alive. His fingerprints and DNA are everywhere.
With help from his friends Vi and Tiny, Robbie must turn detective to find the real killer, even if it's himself.
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Orange Blossom Estates, the second novel in the Diamond Garden Series, is in progress.
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An Appropriate Place
Complete novel at 80,000 words
Austin, a high school teacher at an emotional crossroads, travels to Washington DC to retrieve his estranged, free spirited cousin Hannah’s ashes who he hasn’t seen since childhood. While discovering her life through her journals and her friends in and around the club Pinups Carnivale, he willingly falls into a drug-fueled fantasy nightlife, and is drawn to the alluring Jaz. Down the rabbit hole he goes as secrets are laid bare and Austin is forced to ask if anyone can be saved, including himself.
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Dutch
Complete feature script.
Based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, prodigal son Dutch is released from jail to find his uncle, the man who framed him, has married his mother and is laundering money out of his murdered father’s dance studio.
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