I am happy to announce that my children’s picture book, Christmas Magic, won second place in CHILDRENS-HOLIDAYS category of The Book Fest Awards Spring 2024. They emailed me the news yesterday. It is available in paperback and also hardcover, and adults also buy it for themselves, not just for their children. You can find both versions at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million and through Bookshop.org.
I am also excited to announce I will have a Young Adult Dark Fantasy novel, Demon Memories, releasing in special hardcover, October 15, 2024, with the normal paperback and eBook editions coming January 2025. There is even a book trailer for it, by the publisher, Dreampunk Press! ![]()
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiRXJgjfjgk .
Demon Memories book blurb:
No one expected the apocalypse in the almost idyllic small town of Moon Ridge, nestled in the mountains of Virginia.
Harper Doyle feels different. She has more than her fair share of problems than any normal teenager; an absent father her mother doesn’t talk about, and her friends died in a fire a year ago. There’s no boyfriend in sight, not even the cute former childhood friend, Jake Hewitt, who’s too busy hanging with the bratty son of the richest man in Moon Ridge.
It gets worse when Harper discovers she’s possessed by a demon.
Cresil is a demon with a problem. She wants to be shed of Harper but finds she can’t. An exorcism by Jake’s psychic mother doesn’t help.
Even worse, Cresil learns that she was never the demon summoned, but was sent by magic to take that demon’s place.
Baal has plans that include leading Lucifer’s demonic army into the mortal realm to jump start the apocalypse and battle Heaven. He just needs a possessed mortal to keep the portal between Earth and Hell open.
Except there’s a prophesy—that includes Cresil, Harper, and Jake—to stop the end of the world.
