Experience

Publications

• The Ribs and Thigh Bones of Desire

  Sheer Hubris Press

  It’s the summer of 1977 in a small town in Western Massachusetts. Physics professor David Asken has just lost his young family in a plane crash he somehow survived. Sixteen-year-old neighbor Molly Carmichael used to be the babysitter, but now will be keeping house for him while he recuperates. He’s quietly planning to end his life just as soon as he can drive again, but may not be willing to wait that long after he comes across his dead wife’s journal and encounters more hostility than he had ever imagined. Molly is trying to cope with being known as Tampon Girl, thanks to a sculpture by her notorious artist mother, but she will have to deal with much worse after a drunken teenage party. Both man and girl are going to have to grow up the hard way, and it’s their unexpected connection — fraught with potential scandal — that may just help them do it. This provocative coming-of-age novel asks: Is there ever a time when doing the wrong thing might be exactly right?

• The Ribs and Thigh Bones of Desire

  Sheer Hubris Press

  It’s the summer of 1977 in a small town in Western Massachusetts. Physics professor David Asken has just lost his young family in a plane crash he somehow survived. Sixteen-year-old neighbor Molly Carmichael used to be the babysitter, but now will be keeping house for him while he recuperates. He’s quietly planning to end his life just as soon as he can drive again, but may not be willing to wait that long after he comes across his dead wife’s journal and encounters more hostility than he had ever imagined. Molly is trying to cope with being known as Tampon Girl, thanks to a sculpture by her notorious artist mother, but she will have to deal with much worse after a drunken teenage party. Both man and girl are going to have to grow up the hard way, and it’s their unexpected connection — fraught with potential scandal — that may just help them do it. This provocative coming-of-age novel asks: Is there ever a time when doing the wrong thing might be exactly right?

• The Awful Mess: A Love Story

  Sheer Hubris Press

  In this witty and affectionate tale of small town life, divorced thirty-something editor Mary Bellamy has left behind the Boston suburbs to telecommute from tiny Lawson, New Hampshire. She thinks she'll be content with just a cat for company. However, she's soon coping with attentions from Arthur, the unhappily-married Episcopal priest who'd like to save her heathen soul, but is susceptible to more earthly temptations. Then there's Winslow, the handsome town cop who confuses her by being an excellent kisser who's in favor of gay rights, but opposed to sex before marriage. Before long Mary also faces a crushing job loss, a pregnancy that wasn't supposed to be possible, and a scandalous secret she must keep even at the expense of all her hopes. When her ex-husband's continuing disintegration threatens what little she has left, Mary discovers that the connections we make can result in terrifying risks ... as well as unexpected blessings.