About

Outside of my career as an author, I am a professional technical and creative writer, spider wrangler, animal lover, and devoted cat mom. Writing fantasy and science fiction stories has been a lifelong passion for me. I love to include in my work the diversity I see around me and draw upon my myriad life experiences doing everything from wild cave exploration and competitive horseback endurance riding to practicing iaido and archery.

Grand Prize Winner of 2015 Dante Rossetti Award for Young Adult Fiction for The Girl and the Clockwork Cat

Finalist in the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for The Keeper

Finalist in the 2016 Cygnus Award for Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction for Dissident

My short story, In Silence Waiting was a Writer's of the Future finalist.

Visit my website at elysiumpalace . com to learn more about my writing and read the first chapter of any of my books.

NOTE: No generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) or predictive language software has been or will be used in any part of the creation of my books.

Featured Work

Throne of Vanris, The Warden's Son book 4

2024
Fourth and final book in my The Warden's Son epic fantasy series.

At five years old, Kasiel was found with the pointed ends of his ears cut off. Despite that brutal start, he’s lived twelve peaceful years with the man who took him in. Keeping his hair long over his mutilated ears helps him hide the fact that he is Vanrian, a child of the enemy. Or so he believes until the day mercenaries arrive hunting for him.

Other Works

  • Heart of Vanris, The Warden's Son book 3

    2024

  • Blood of Vanris, The Warden's Son book 2

    2024

  • Child of Vanris, The Warden's Son book 1

    2024

  • A Path of Blood and Amber, Silverblood Raven book 1

    2023

  • A Path of Secrets and Dreams, Silverblood Raven book 2

    2023

  • A Path of Storms and Reckonings, Silverblood Raven book 3

    2023

  • The Girl and the Clockwork Crossfire, Clockwork Enterprises book 3

    2017

  • The Girl and the Clockwork Cat, Clockwork Enterprises book 1

    2016 (original publication 2014 by Entangled Teen)

  • Apostate, Forbidden Things book 3

    2016

  • Dissident, Forbidden Things book 1

    2015

  • Exile, Forbidden Things book 2

    2015

  • The Girl and the Clockwork Conspiracy, Clockwork Enterprises book 2

    2015