I was recently asked if I have a playlist for Saving Annabelle. I didn’t then, but since I typically listen to the same music while writing, it was easy to throw together a playlist, and I’ve been writing/revising to it ever since. I’ve included some...
This is my novel in under 100 words: Minnesota, 1877. Greta saves her sister, Annabelle’s, life only to forever wonder if Annabelle would have been better off frozen to death. She is frozen in a sense; her body continues to grow while mentally she remains the...
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