These are my Works In Progress. Each of the stories below are in various states of completion, ranging from, In Development to first draft.I Don't Want Easier — YA / MM Romance
As tutoring sessions move from the school library to the chaotic warmth of the Ross household, the "jock/nerd" labels dissolve. Jake finds a sense of belonging with Everett’s family that his own wealth could never buy, specifically through a profound bond with Everett's, autistic, younger brother, Wesly. But as their friendship shifts into a tentative, note-driven romance, Everett’s body image issues become the final wall. He can’t understand how a "Greek God" like Jake could ever truly want someone he views as "just sharp angles and jagged edges."
I Don't Want Easier is a love letter to queer kids who feel like they’re the wrong shape for their own lives. It’s about the moment you realize that the person the world was 'built for' is actually just waiting for you to build a world with him.
Book Type: Short Story — approx 5,000 words. Current State: Complete Geometry Salt and Chemistry — YA / NA / MM Romance
Eric Richardson is one failed chemistry test away from being benched. Desperate to hide his severe learning disability and save his full-ride football scholarship, the closeted star quarterback strikes a tutoring deal with Kevin Ross—the quiet, highly observant genius. Kevin is relentlessly snarky, and fiercely protective of his autistic younger brother, Wesly. As their tutoring sessions foster a profound, slow-burn romance, the pressure of midterms, locker-room politics, institutional negligence, and a false acusation of academic fraud threatens to tear them apart and destroy Kevin's academic future in the process. To protect the boy who finally sees his true worth, Eric must decide if he's willing to burn down his entire kingdom to save Kevin's future.
Book Type: Novella — approx 42,000 words. Current State: First Draft — needs editing. Ghost of Pennsburg — YA / NA / Crime / Thriller / MM Romance
Nate was turned into a ghost, slowly remembers how to be human because a boy with a 1,000-watt smile refused to let him hide in the dark. In the sterile silence of the Witness Protection Program, Nate is a teenage "human hard drive" has to find the strength in himself to break his father’s dehumanizing protocols to love the boy who brings him back to life, unaware that every memory he archives is a countdown to their final goodbye.
Book Type: Novella — approx 35,000 words. Current State: First Draft — needs editing. Witness Protection — YA / NA / Crime / Thriller / MM Romance
Two 17 year old boys, Ezra and Nate, are set to celebrate their three year anniversary in a few days. But their love and lives are suddenly on the line when Nate vanishes overnight and he will stop at nothing to find him and bring him home. Following breadcrumbs Nate left behind, Ezra drives into the heart of a cartel war—only to discover that the people protecting Nate might be just as dangerous as the ones hunting him.
Book Type: Novella — approx 35,000 words. Current State: First Draft — needs editing. Alien — YA / MM / Psychological Thriller
Joel and Sam are opposites in every way. In Oakland, opposites get targeted. Their love for each other is not light or fluffy; it's a matter of life and death. It's the sorce of their strength to fight for their lives and relationship. It's the sanctuary where they heal.
Book Type: Duology, Novel — approx 80,000 words currently. Current State: Still developing. Dear Richard — Adult / Queer MM Romance / Epistolary Novel
A secret blog. An ex-fiancé. A marriage on the line. Taylor writes to the past to save his future in this novel told entirely through intimate online blog posts.
Book Type: Epistolary Novel — approx 40,000 words currently. Current State: Still developin, posting chapters upon completion. Indigo — YA Queer MM Contemporary / Drama / LGBTQ+ Romance
Ethan Dalton, a "perfect soldier" in training, and Mateo Cruz Lozano, a boy who sees the world in color and texture. Together they learn that they are worthy of love. Mateo teaches Ethan to live out loud and Ethan teaches Mateo to find his inner strength to believe in himself.
Book Type: Novel — Approx 85,000 words. Current State: First Draft Complete — Needs Editing. Devil's Lake — YA Contemporary / Fantasy / MM Queer Romance
To save their haunted town from a cyborg-lich, an anxious teen with newfound magic and his fiercely protective boyfriend must cross into a dying realm. There, they discover their love is the only power strong enough to free a captive dragon and win a supernatural war.
Book Type: Novel — Approx 85,000 words. Current State: First Draft Complete — Needs Editing. The Giants of Sector 7 — Sci-Fi Cozy Comedy
Experience the familiar world of melodrama, serious stakes, and the naval tradition of Star Trek The Original Series and the suburban surrealism of The Twilight Zone, with new eyes in a story about finding dignity in the absurd, it’s War of the Worlds, but the aliens are a quarter of an inch tall and the humans are just lonely.
Book Type: Novel — Approx 85,000 words. Current State: First Draft Complete — Needs Editing. The Door — Near-Future Military Sci-Fi / Dystopian Drama / MM Queer Romance
Its 2030, the Government develops the "Colony Initiative"—to save humanity—a one-way trip through The Door and promises of a new life on an Earth-like off-world paradise. But when Jack steps through The Door he doesn't find a colony in paradise. He falls out of a disposal chute into a mountain of corpses and mutants. He learns that The Door wasn't a bridge to the stars; it was a garbage disposal for humanity’s unwanted.
Book Type: Novel — Approx 90,000 words. Current State: First Draft Complete — Needs Editing. The Friction of Us — Dystopian / YA / MM / Queer Romance
A city divided by altitude and morality. Above, The Halo. Below, The Ruins. Cas is son of the city’s Chief Architect and heir to the city's highest office, falls for Marrow, an 'Unclaimed Asset' living in The Ruins. When Cas learns of his heartless father's plan to redevelop The Ruins and send the Unclaimed Assets to The Forge, he orchestrates a heroing escape to the Dead Zone before his father can erase their memories—and their love—forever.
Book Type: Novel — Approx 80,000 words. Current State: First Draft Complete — Needs Editing. Honest Steel — Adult MM Queer Romance
A rising star in the world of corporate architecture has spent twenty years building a life of invisible perfection to survive his family’s "polite bigotry", and self loathing, to keep his career from crumbling. But when he finds a mentor in a Stonewall-era biker, and falls for an unapologetic punk barista he must decide whether to keep reinforcing the walls of his closet or burn the blueprints and build something real.
Book Type: Novel — Approx 85,000 words. Current State: First Draft Complete — Needs Editing.