My Current Projects
The Potato Salad Potluck
Complete and seeking representation...
An invitation to a kindergarten potluck. Four mothers careening towards disaster. Secrets, life-shattering scandals, and a bunny named Vajayjay. The women have five days to grapple with indecision—should they reveal their confidences to loved ones or risk loneliness? They choose truth and family forging new friendships over a common enemy in another kindergarten mom and her scandalous plus-one. The women discover belonging while picking potato salad from their hair and handbags.
If you liked any of the following amazing books, you’ll enjoy The Potato Salad Potluck.
One Week at a Time: A Coming of Middle Age Memoir
Complete and seeking representation...
Kristine Laco was having a midlife crisis. With questions about her self-worth, nagging depression, and challenges in her marriage, the second half of her life needed sorting before it went terribly wrong.
At forty-nine, Kristine made a declaration that surprised even herself. She would venture to have fifty new experiences before her looming fiftieth birthday, only fifty weeks away. She needed to find something that fulfilled her for the second half of her life. Certainly, she would find inspiration and clarity then? But could she survive the adventure?
A motivational memoir infused with warmth, love, and humour. One Week at a Time powerfully chronicles the turmoil of one woman as she forges ahead on a bucket list project designed to help her survive depression and midlife. Her yearlong journey threatens to break her, but ultimately puts her back together.
If you liked any of the following amazing books, you'll enjoy One Week at a Time: A Coming of Middle Age Memoir.
From Motherless to Mother: A Memoir in Essays
As a completed memoir in essays, this book is about my fear of becoming a mother. When I first learned I was pregnant, I reflected on my childhood being raised by a single father and it made me wonder if I had the tools required to be a mother.
The essays will chronicle the people in my life who guided me to become a mother: my father, grandparents, babysitters, and teachers. Even strangers showed me the way.
If you liked any of the following amazing books, you’ll enjoy From Motherless to Mother: A Memoir of Essays.
Brianna's Baby
On an ill-fated trip to Sarno, Italy, Brianna & her friend Jenna—both 8 months pregnant—are involved in an accident that leaves Brianna without her child & Jenna without her life. In the aftermath, Brianna takes Jenna’s baby home to Canada. Who is Brianna hurting by letting everyone believe the infant in her arms is her own? Jenna’s grieving family mourns their losses while Brianna’s husband, unaware of the truth, is ecstatic to be a father. Does the baby really look like Jason? As Brianna wrestles with the burden of her secret and her seething insecurity, she’s diagnosed with Postpartum Depression (PPD) & PTSD. When an illness threatens the baby’s future & the parents’ DNA becomes critical to survival, Brianna faces a devastating choice that could leave her childless, single, or behind bars.
If you liked any of the following amazing books, you’ll enjoy Brianna's Baby.
