Writing Award 2022

After secondary student Bec Hartley discovers three murdered teenaged girls in the woods outside Manningtree, she begins a perilous journey to expose the truth about the mysterious Church of the Second Coming and save her loved ones from the new Witchfinder General.

When Hemingway Jones swerves off the road and accidentally kills his father, he makes a desperate choice to take his father's body to Lifebank where he works as an intern and does what the doctors and scientists could not: bringing his father back to life with a host of unintended consequences.

A new town, a new school, and a cryptic invitation lead Penny Morrow and her brother, with the help of two unlikely friends, on a quest to stop an ancient curse and protect the secrets of the bound forest.

Sixteen-year-old Harvey Spizzle is lost in a murky world of high-level conspiracies, boarding school brats, hints of the occult, a legendary school rivalry—and her own murky gender identity

A seeker of knowledge and world experience, a naive young man in his prime finds answers and obstacles over a lifetime of exploring sex, war, love and art around the globe. His PTSD-fueled self-medicating drags him to the bottom of his noble pursuit where he must get a grip or die.

It has been said you're the hero of your own story... but what if you're the villain instead?

On the hills of Nice, a woman becomes obsessed with another, watching her across her balcony.

In London, 1715, Sam Jessop asks the Huguenot artist André Dark to help him look for his runaway daughter, helped, or hindered, by Gin, a street urchin, and the fascinating and beautiful Polly Paradice, singer and woman of the town. Can they find Mary and foil a Jacobite plot before it’s too late?

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Jess and Angelina are exact opposites, which is strange considering they're the same person. To save both of their worlds from an infection threatening humanity, they must combine their knowledge and find a way to work together. Problem is, they hate each other.

This is a dark, surrealistic tale of psychological horror, based on the true story of the Hotel Albert in NYC. It is my fifth book, my masterwork, a story of purgatory, unforgivable sin ultimately forgiven, and of love, and the power of love to redeem even the darkest soul.

Amid civil unrest, Jules Jones, a young widow, crashes on her parents’ couch in Alabama. Electricity and food are sparse. Leaving is dangerous, but staying is suffocating. Then, she discovers a source of hope and purpose—a child as alone as Jules feels. She also discovers a target on her back.

RINNE comprises linked vignettes and watercolors inspired by the journeys of the author's Japanese and Russian family spanning five centuries across four continents. RINNE follows a samurai poet, a Jewish baron, a harem pharmacists, a hidden saint... culminating with the author's new life in the US.

Set in 1930’s America during the great depression era, the lives of three migrant drifters from Oklahoma become entangled as their past and present reaches boiling point in the Californian valley – but vengeance can only be served by one.

A terrible massacre in the Lowlands forces a gentle priest to confront his past to save the girl he loves. The Queen of Tartica harbors a dreadful secret as her powerless husband tries to keep order and win power in his realm.

Sheltered Lilian Carstairs is invited to a jazz age party being hosted by local young aristocrat, Gideon Shelley, This is the story of the fallout of her rape and subsequent pregnancy. Neither of them possible for middle class girls in 1925 - at the very earliest dawn of the welfare state.

At the end of the brutal Spanish civil war, when a determined activist unveils Mother Superior’s plan to deport children from her convent-cum-prison, she is torn between saving her own daughter and her commitment to the mothers left behind.

Jake Doyle's column was syndicated in 200 papers. But he fell in love with his intern and lost it all. Now he's a 20th century man trying to make it in the 21st century. When an ambitous publisher offers the job of a lifetime, Jake learns that not everyone has a price, but everything has a cost.

Meeting the coin is meeting the mind. Meeting the mind is meeting the illusion of a separate self.
The mind is a coin-projector. It projects two sides of opposite of one and the same coin onto everything perceivable. Peace, love and joy do not lie in the mind, but in the prior state of the mind.

The Wars of Ice and Plenty is a new adult fantasy novel following the journey of a young woman seeking her own identity while learning to navigate life alone in a world made for men.