Future Projects

"The Written Word is my Vocation and my Passion."

Heaven and Hell: Europe on an Educational Tour
Forty teenagers and four countries, France, Belgium, Holland and Amsterdam, in ten days; truly the agony and ecstasy in the summer of 2006. Add to that a guide that gets lost--often, one of the longest and most intense heat waves Europe has ever known and miles and miles of walking. Each historical site visited will have its own description, short history, pictures, maps and more. Work will include tips, personal observations, recommendations and what to avoid. A National Lampoon Vacation come to life.

For Love of Country
This historical fiction is set during the American Revolutionary War. A British noblewoman, now an American citizen, is widowed during the first skirmishes of the war. She is an ardent patriot; she is in love with America and the idea of free nation ruled by its people. She is frustrated that she cannot pick up a gun and fight for her country, for her freedom, or die for it, as her husband did. She does the only thing she can do, she becomes a spy. Over the course of the war she becomes a major part of America's fight, almost losing her own life in the process. When she falls in love with a British spy she must choose between love for him and the love of her new country.

Gueneviere's Choice (tentative title)
In story after story, myth after myth, the man that was King Arthur is portrayed as one of the most honorable, most courageous, most endearing men to ever breath. Why then would any woman choose someone else over him? Geuneviere's Choice will try and answer that question within the context of historical fiction based on the legends as set down by Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and T. H. White's The Once and Future King and embellished with extensive additional historical research.

Mona Lisa's Secret or Mona and Leo (tentative titles)
There is no doubt the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's most renown painting had her secrets, but just what were they. The theories range from one extreme to the other, that she was actually Leonardo in drag or that she was his married lover. The strange truth (as will be fictionally hypothesized based on research) is somewhere in the middle. Mona Lisa was married to an Italian noble and, at the time that da Vinci was painting her, she was having an affair but it wasn't with Leonardo. The two friends, painter and subject, hide the secrets of the other and allowing them to enjoy their furtive pleasures.

Flight of the Hummingbirds (middle reader fantasy)
An entire kingdom of faeries are forced from their lands by evil gnomes and are living, disguised as hummingbirds, in a small village in colonial America. A small group of children become aware of who and what these birds are and become determined to help them get their kingdom back.