Portfolio

From compassionate self-help and humorous memoir to heart-throbbing romance and angry poetry, here you'll find a sampling of the books I've worked on. Will yours be next in the showcase?

Non-Fiction

Tiger in a Lifeboat: Discovering India, Deconstructing Faith, and Deciding to Trust Again

Lauren Cibene

"When her certainties crumbled, she found a fierce new truth far from home. After a shattering betrayal tore through her faith and identity, writer Lauren Cibene clung to the fragments of a life once totally defined by evangelicalism. In the wake of her betrayal, she wrestled with anxiety, borderline agoraphobia, and depression while her faith community tried to rush through her grief. That's when Cibene spontaneously abandoned the familiar for the unpredictable: India."

The Newlyweds: Pursuing Mutuality, Health, and Happiness in Marriage

Ngina Otiende

"The Newlyweds delves into essential themes of a happy and healthy marriage, including mutuality, expectations, communication, sex, intimacy, spirituality, finances, intentionality . . . without surface-level platitudes and over-simplified answers.

Get the clarity, discernment and relationship skills you need to co-create a healthy, mutual, connected marriage . . . from day one."

Courage: Reflections and Liberation for the Hurting Soul

Ngina Otiende

"I write these words to those who have been told to take their place in the valley of desolation; those who thought they were free but still carry the burden of male superiority and classism on their shoulders; those hurt by wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing; those walking through life with a broken, disjointed soul. And those who love them. You deserve dignity and respect. Your agency and autonomy are God-given and are worth protecting."

Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly

Trey Ferguson

"With personal stories and some lo-fi truth telling, Ferguson leads us through topics like how we read the Bible, our inherited traditions, the shame and confusion we experience, and a faith that can shape tomorrow. Ferguson writes, 'Theology requires imagination. The ability to imagine is part of what makes us human. And salvation is, in part, a rehumanization project.'"

Giving Up God: Resurrecting a Spirituality of Love and Wonder

Sarah Henn Hayward

"The journey of faith deconstruction is not without grief, but with profound wisdom, Hayward holds fast to a forthright, inspirational honesty that shines on every page. Giving Up God offers a narrative that gives us permission to let go of the past and our fear about the future, and instead train our attention on love and wonder in our present life and resurrect a peace deeper than we ever thought possible."

Amen? Questions for a God I Hope Exists

Julia Rocchi

"All her life, Julia Rocchi has searched for both the stillness and community that would connect her with something real and powerful, something like God. But religion, often consumed by its certainties, sometimes fails us. We want to find a new way. Could it be that faith is instead a conversation we carry on in questions?"

Bring It Home

Matt Kendziera

"If our quest for faith leaves us disappointed by systems and people who claim to have the corner on the truth, what are we left with? We are left with the place where it all began. . . . You were created for a meaningful life and a deep connection to the divine. Time to bring it home."

Faith Doesn't Erase Grief

Kate J. Meyer

"The grieving process is part of being human, but far too often, grievers are pushed out of grief and rushed into rejoicing that their loved one is in heaven. Alternately, those who allow themselves to grieve openly are shamed for doing so, often resulting in turning away from faith. It is time for a better way to acknowledge that you can struggle with grief and still love God."

jaded

Marla Taviano

"For those of us who are picking up pieces of life and faith and figuring out how to heal and move forward, jaded: a poetic reckoning with white evangelical christian indoctrination is a collection of poems—short, thoughtful, brave, and spicy—about getting stuff off our chests."

Fiction

Just Stab Me Now

Jill Bearup

"Caroline Lindley is determined that her new romance novel will be her best one yet. Fantasy! Formal gowns! Fencing! And, of course, a twentysomething heroine to star in an enemies-to-lovers plot with all of Caroline’s favourite tropes. But Lady Rosamund Hawkhurst is a thirty-six-year-old widow with two children, her sole focus is facilitating a peace treaty between her adopted nation and her homeland, and she flatly refuses to take the correct approach to there being Only One Bed. What’s an author to do?"

Vow of the Shadow King

Sylvia Mercedes

"A treacherous bride. A heartbroken groom. Is their marriage over before it’s begun? Her deceit discovered, Faraine finds herself trapped in the Shadow Realm at the mercy of her new husband. She’s surrounded by enemies, far from any allies, and her best bet for survival is to convince Vor to send her home. But to do so means to give up on the alliance. Which would spell disaster for her people. . . . Can two lost hearts find healing and hope in one another? Or is their love already poisoned beyond recovery?"

An Excellent Walker

Lyndsay Constable

"AN UNEXPECTED MEETING between Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet becomes suddenly and shockingly dangerous. Mr Darcy is determined to protect Elizabeth but his exertions leave him grievously wounded. Sheltering with him in a shepherd’s hut, Elizabeth tends to Darcy’s injuries while trying to suppress her concern about the impropriety of her circumstances, as well as the fever-induced proposal that results."

An Inducement Into Matrimony: "United by Happenstance"

Gailie Ruth Caress

"Lady Catherine brings Elizabeth Bennet unexpectedly to Mr Darcy’s doorstep but when her ladyship recognises she has brought the enemy to the gate, she turns vitriolic. Darcy and Elizabeth unite against his aunt’s wrath but will the union lead to more than either anticipated?"

Happily Ever After with Mr Darcy

Amy D'Orazio et al.

"Happily Ever After with Mr Darcy is a compilation of previous published novellas, all of which are variations on Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice."

Fearful Symmetry: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

Gailie Ruth Caress

"Darcy had never known such a woman, one who could rush into an inferno and emerge as bold and brilliant as burnished brass, bright as any mirror. . . . Fitzwilliam Darcy had planned to leave Netherfield Park and all thoughts of the enchanting Miss Elizabeth Bennet behind him—until one night when he saw smoke rising from Longbourn and realised she was in peril."