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Updates
Join me at the LA Times Festival of Books! 4/26-4/27/25 @ USC campus
Free E book downloads for 3 books to celebrate the festival! (4/26-4/28/25, US)
YIMBY: Amazon download
YIMBY in Spanish: Amazon download
Problem Child: Amazon download
YIMBY!!
YES! In My Back Yard!
Everyone is healthier, happier, and safer when everyone has what they need.
This beautiful picture book shows how kids and families can help unhoused members of their communities.
YIMBY: Yes! In My Back Yard! (available in English and Spanish)
This book shows how everybody can help people experiencing homelessness in their own communities. (ages 4-8)
Critical Reviews:
Kirkus: " A gorgeously rendered, heartfelt picture book with an important mission statement and helpful calls to action."
Publisher's Weekly Book Life: Editor's Pick- "(T)he story's characters ... (offer) a welcoming, respectful answer to the housing crisis that so many communities are experiencing today."
Chanticleer: 5 Stars - "YIMBY... presents a simple yet powerful story that speaks to the heart of human kindness and the need to help our fellow man."
Youtube link of the author reading YIMBY.
Recent Books
Transitional Age Youth series - Books in verse (YA; ages 14+)
Books 1-3 cover issues facing youth aging out of the foster care system, system involved youth, and homelessness (throwaway youth).
The Junior Hindsight Series - middle grade memoir, focuses on traumatic events covered in the early chapters of Hindsight. (Ages 10+)
Available now on Amazon.
Exciting news!
I'm currently in my last year working on my MFA in Creative Writing (fiction). I graduate in June 2025 from Drexel University!
Will be querying soon - my WIP is a YA novel about a 17yo girl in foster care who discovers she has type 1 diabetes
right before she's supposed to age out of care (dedicated to my brother Kevin, with a happier ending).
Current series
The Resilience Group was unfortunately placed on hold (I'm a frontline health care worker and writing had to be paused for the past few years). The series will finally get updated covers and will be continued soon.
Likewise, the next 3 Doctress of Medicine books will be released hopefully in late 2025.
It's going to be a busy year! Stay tuned.
SAVE THE DATE!!
I have a booth at the L.A. Times Festival of Books (4/26-4/27/25)! I look forward to meeting all my readers!