Friday, August 26, 2016

Back to School

     At the high school where I teach, about 1% of the students and 7% of the faculty are reading Gar. Do we assign too much homework, or are adults really the backbone of the YA market? No conclusions can be drawn from this limited data set.

        
If you hear someone shouting in the halls, "Hey, kids! Forget about your homework. Read Gar!" It wasn't me. 


Thursday, August 11, 2016

Gar

Gar, the first book in my YA science fiction trilogy is now available! 

For fifteen years, Gar lived in a river outside the town of Ada, South Carolina. He can morph into any creature, but he doesn’t know what he’s doing on Earth.

Then he befriends Nell and Simon Baker and with their help, learns to fit into the human world. But soon eerie, inexplicable things start happening in Ada.

Inside an old lunchbox, Gar discovers detailed notes that may offer a clue to what is going on. He and his two friends track down the writer, Ben McIntyre. Ben has insights into a strange meteor strike that just might explain Gar’s existence.

As the young people work to understand the otherworldly happenings in Ada, two things become clear: the meteor strike wasn’t an accident, and time is running out to figure out what caused it.

If you would like to read some of Gar's backstory, take a look at excerpts from earlier drafts by clicking on the "Gar extension" label listed at the right of this post. Thank you for your support everyone. Enjoy!