UPCOMING WORK

• "Stone Virgin" : Contemporary novel; dark humor; first person. Synopsis: Peg Rush, 33, lives and works in a neighborhood with her aging mother, Isolated from the rest of Minneapolis by freeway and airport expansions. All that remains are three residential blocks, a Catholic church, convent and cemetery where Peg's brother is buried. Only a miracle could save them from extinction. As luck -- or God -- would have it, something miraculous happens. "Watermarks" Contemporary novel; dark humor; first person. Synopsis: Diane spent her childhood battling a terminal illness. Her family mourns her passing and is ill prepared to handle her cure at age 17. She is adrift; emotionally fluid and physically surrounded by water living on the River Avon during the rainy season above the ancient Roman hot springs buried beneath the city of Bath, England. She searches for meaning and anchoring through art studies and gets tangled in the web of a charismatic older man.