Books
CHICKEN WINGS and ONION RINGS
Jake only ever eats two things: chicken wings and onion rings.
While on a deep-sea fishing trip with his dad, Jake gets swept overboard in a sudden storm and nearly drowns. Luckily, a sea turtle carries him off to a distant desert island teeming with fresh fruit and vegetables—but there isn’t a chicken wing or onion ring anywhere to be had.
Will Jake finally give in and eat the fresh, delicious food being offered to him by his new monkey friend? Or will he remain his same stubborn self and risk starvation? And for that matter, how in the world will he ever get back home to his family? This is an adventure story about the world’s pickiest eater, told in pictures, rhyme, and meter.
Type: Illustrated Narrative Poem
Genre: Adventure
Age range: (4-10)
Word count: 2000
Status: Complete (see illustration samples here)
Escape Story
A young family of three, trapped and oppressed in communist Czechoslovakia, endeavor to escape the regime for the freedom and prosperity of the west, embarking on what becomes an epic, harrowing adventure.
Type: Novel
Genre: Adventure / Autofiction
Age range: Adult
Word count: approx. 65,000
Status: Revising
THE HEAVENLY ELEVEN
Versus
A WORLD WITHOUT FOOTBALL
Tom, a 12-year-old footballing phenom, sets out to escape his mega-rich-and-powerful parents and join the Heavenly Eleven Football Club, a team of the world’s best kid players whose stated mission is to save human sports from obsolescence by defeating the best of the football-playing super-androids known as the Footbots.
Type: Children's Chapter Book
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi / Sports
Age Range: Middle Grade (8-12)
Word Count: 34,000
Status: Complete
JELLYFISH
When an intrepid Slovak journalist, secretly working on an explosive story, is killed under suspicious circumstances, her best friend and fellow journalist, Tami Konečná, sets out to finish the piece and, in doing so, uncovers a criminal conspiracy that shocks the world.
Type: Novel
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Age range: Adult
Word count: 85,000 (estimated)
Status: Writing
THE JUGGERNAUT
In a sleepy California mountain town, a high school freshman's life spirals out of control when his car mechanic father inherits a fortune, joins a doomsday religious cult, and, in anticipation of what he believes to be the coming apocalypse, begins constructing a giant armored tank.
Type: Novel
Genre: Allegorical / Speculative / Thriller
Age Range: YA
Word Count: 101,000
Status: Complete