History Articles

• "The Chrysler Building" for City Legacy Magazine
• "Sexual Tension" for Unusual Historicals view clip
• "CSI: NY (1900-style)" for Unusual Historicals view clip
• "The History of a Slum" for Unusual Historicals view clip
• "The Price of Beauty in the 1860s" for Unusual Historicals
• "November 11, 1918: Armistice Day" for Unusual Historicals
• "Romance Novels and the Working GIrl" for Unusual Historicals
• "The Children's Aid Society" for Unusual Historicals
• "The Tong Wars" for Unusual Historicals
• "The Grand Street School" for Unusual Historicals

Features

• "Horsemanship Camps" Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, February 2006
• "Selecting a Backyard Play Set" Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, May 2006
• "Dining Out with Kids" Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, September 2006
• "Contact Lenses and Kids" Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, October 2006
• "Guardianship" Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, November 2006
• "Preparing Your Family for Disaster" Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, January 2007
• "Camp: More than Campfire Stories" Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, February 2007
• "Keeping Kids Smoke-Free" Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, March 2007
• "Is Your Teen Ready for MySpace?" Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, May 2007
• "Ready for Preschool?" Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, July 2007 view clip (new tab)
• "Finances for Kids" Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, December 2007
• "Keeping Kids Smoke-Free", reprint, Southern Families Magazine, November/December 2007
• "Cyber Spies", edit, Southern Families Magazine, November/December 2007

Cover Stories

• "Are You a Cyber Spy?"
  Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, August 2007 view clip (new tab)

Nonfiction Anthologies

• "Testing Faith" Stories from Beyond the Sidewalk, edited by Ellie Winslow, 2005
• "Riding Lessons", Stories from Beyond the Sidewalk, edited by Ellie Winslow, 2005

 

Short Stories

• "Conveyances"
• "A Streak of Blue"
• "Smith and 9th"
  at Faith in Fiction, April 2007; formatted version available at Scribd.
• "Chimera Nocent"
at Wheelhouse Magazine, Summer 2007
• "Tresor Day"

Novelette

• "The Collect" at Rough Draft Magazine, June 2007, free .pdf download at Scribd.

  Steampunk. After an e-bomb takes out New York City's electronics and sends the city back to the mid-1800s, a special police force rises from the rubble to temper the rush of crime. In "The Collect", SP agent Prentice Dillinger faces violent crime in a vice den.

Novels

• Pariah Dogs (rough; prequel to Atrocity Gods)
  
• Atrocity Gods
  
  

  In April of 1903, a body of a man was found in a barrel on New York's Lower East Side. "The Barrel Murder" was one of the first publicized Mafia-related killings in the city.
  
  At the time of the murder, a young criminal-gone-clean is living and working with a family of Italians who are prosperous enough to become a target of the Mafia's extortion racket called The Black Hand.
  
  Tensions rise between the head of the Black Hand and the young criminal as she takes a stand against his heinous intimidation tactics. 
  
  

  
  
• The Death Corner (rough; sequel to Atrocity Gods)



• The Upstairs Girl - Young adult historical

  Born in Brownsville and raised by the laborers of Brooklyn and the scholars of Columbia University, seventeen-year-old Anna Thatcher is purely middle-class. Amid the social revolutions of the late 1910s, Anna's mother remarries into Dutch Manhattan money.

  Anna is swept from blue-collar Pittsburgh life into the haute couture world of New York. When reunited with her dockworker cousin Trey and his best friend Colm, Anna learns of their troubles with an extortionist gang.

  The face of the gang is rumored to be an old comrade gone bad, Johnny Donahue. Johnny reenters Anna's life and, as the gang gains power and her friends fight to stay on top of things, Johnny becomes Anna's only companion. But is his the kind offriendship Anna wants to pursue?

The Darknesses - Young adult urban fantasy set in 1900

The ancient death-spirits spread violence, suffering, and even vamprism through the streets of old New York. In a desperate attempt to stop them, the god of time bestows powers on mankind so humans can fight.

In the midst of the battle, two modern teenagers are sent to protect a single girl in New York at the turn of the 20th century, and end up closer the heart of the problem than they ever hoped.