Books

Here is a list of my current projects, along with some moodboards if they don’t have a cover yet.

ALEX, BY PROXY

HARROWING NEW DETAILS IN ‘MONSTER MOMMY’ CASE… SHOCKING INFORMATION SURFACES AS ‘MONSTER MOMMY’ CASE HEADS TO TRIAL… HOW COULD A MOTHER POISON HER SON?

Welcome to sixteen-year-old Alex’s life, ripped straight from the headlines.

Alex is a victim of Munchausen by proxy, but he’s also a witty, sarcastic kid with unusually good crossword skills and a penchant for astronomy. At least he used to be. Now that he’s recovered from years of illness induced by his mother, he sort of has to figure out who he is all over again… And most importantly, he’ll have to decide if he can testify against the woman who gave birth to him.

As Alex awaits the trial, his friends convince him to start a podcast as a way to tell his story. Lethal Lullaby brings Alex closer to his old life—hanging out with friends, cracking jokes, having fun—but at the same time, dark memories surface, forcing Alex to acknowledge that the podcast could be making things worse. It seems like he’s got deeper issues than he’d like to admit, and this time, he can’t blame them on his mom.

Day by day, Alex’s mental health crumbles, until he can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction. Should he trust himself to testify? And if he gets up there, what version of the truth will he share?

Alex, by Proxy will be out July 2026 from Holiday House, and is available for preorder here!

SNAKETOWN, FLORIDA

Moodboard of nine square pictures arranged in a three by three pattern. Images described below. Top left: Sunset on a beach, viewed through sunglasses in an orange haze. Top center: A woman in a veil, which obscures her face. Sunlight illuminates the orange background. Top right: A shadow of a woman surrounded by fire. Middle left: A close-up of a girl with dark eyes and hair, her expression resolute. Middle center: A neon sign shaped like a comment bubble. Inside the bubble is a heart icon and the number “0” (0 likes). Middle right: The top of a palm tree. Bottom left: A speckled red and orange snake curling around a camera. Bottom center: Close-up of flames. Bottom right: A shadowed hand obscuring a square of light coming in from a window. — All photos from Unsplash. Top left: 1mx, Top center: anton_shakirov, Top right: eliapelle, Middle left: roxy_aln, Middle center: prateekkatyal, Middle right: ernestonorman, Bottom left: jcotten, Bottom center: christopher__burns, Bottom right: unlikelymichelle.

Fifteen-year-old June Cassidy has always felt at home in Sunset Springs, a town in rural Florida where everyone is just as weird as she is. Where people find abandoned rocket launchers in the canal, a man raises pythons for a living, and most importantly, no one cares that June has severe psychosis. But when outsiders look at Sunset Springs, all they see is abandoned backwater. And in thirty days, megacorporation Hydrocell will flood the town as part of a water diversion project to save prime beachfront real estate—and wipe Sunset Springs off the map.

June knows the town is worth everything—she just has to prove it. So she and her girlfriend Cecily come up with a brilliant idea: they’ll turn it into a tourist attraction. But the only thing that will bring outsiders to boggy, mosquito-infested Sunset Springs is good old-fashioned Floridian chaos. Together they hatch a plan to stage their very own Florida Man story by unleashing hundreds of pythons on the town as part of a (fake) revenge plot. Soon, Sunset Springs goes viral, and huge crowds arrive to capture the ensuing crisis on social media.

But when various townspeople try to take the story into their own hands, things spiral out of control, and secrets risk being exposed. Worse, June begins to suspect Cecily’s motives are more complicated—and that she isn’t trying to save the town at all.

Snaketown, Florida will be available Summer 2027 from Holiday House.