Fan Base
(February 2025)
Ebook and Paperback available through Amazon and Bookshop
Obsession has consequences…
It’s been twenty-five years since Babs and her super-fan sister, Margot, met teen heartthrob Austin Lewis while visiting their aunt and uncle in L.A., and the last three of those years have been brutal. In the aftermath of the tragic death of her husband, Babs has become paralyzed by grief, isolated from friends, and is fired from the Chicago law firm where she worked for nearly twenty years. It is at this point that she runs into Austin again.
Things are different now, though; the years have not been kind to Austin, either. In Chicago temporarily to manage his mother’s estate and sell her house following her death, Austin has long-since been relegated to D-list status. Only Gen-X nostalgia and his good eye as a producer keep him connected to the business that once made him a star. Bonding through their respective griefs, Austin and Babs quickly fall for each other. However, as their relationship intensifies, Babs becomes the target of aggressive cyberbullying, which Austin suspects originates with a small, toxic subset of his fandom who call themselves the “Lewnatics.”
When it is revealed that Margot is a Lewnatic, Babs must decide who to trust as she forges a new life with Austin at her side.
Dark Tales from the Mid-World (September 2024)
Ebook available today through Smashwords
Paperback available on Amazon
An anthology of horror stories from Mid-World Arts.
Just in time for Halloween, Mid-World Arts has released a Halloween Anthology, a collection of stories from a wide-range of genres, all somehow tying to what is my favorite holiday. An effort has been made to keep the stories well within a PG-13 rating, with some happily PG. Pick and choose, or read through.
Purchase the ebook through Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1615224
Load Bearing (March 2024)
Hannah, her husband Michael, and their daughter Molly have moved to Indianapolis and purchased a dilapidated, one-hundred-year-old mansion that will be their home. While clearing out the attic in anticipation of renovations, Hannah finds a box containing photographs of the architect and one-time resident of the house, Andrew Decker.
Moving from curiosity, to fascination, to obsession, Hannah becomes consumed with learning everything there is to know about the life and death of the mysterious architect and his family. She combs through newspaper articles and obituaries, seeks out his grandchildren, and enlists the help of her friends. All the while, Andrew becomes an increasingly more central part of her life. She thinks about him; she dreams about him; and eventually, she begins to see him.
As the pieces of Andrew Decker’s life begin to come together, the pieces of Hannah’s are falling apart. When a tragedy cuts to the core of what Hannah holds most dear in this world, she begins to spiral, receding further into the past and away from her family and friends. Ultimately, Hannah will have to decide whether the past is a place she learns from or becomes lost in.
50% of revenue will be donated to the American Library Association.
For authoritarians and their supporters, book banning is the floor. They’ve yet to define the ceiling. What other forms of creative expression will be next on their hit list: music, theater, paintings, sculpture? When we lose our intellectual freedom, we lose our democracy.
This collection of short stories, poetry, flash fiction, and essays highlight everything that is beautiful in the written word. Through this body of work, Wild Ink Publishing is taking a stand against book banning. We invite you to stand with us.
Wild Ink will donate 50% of all revenue from the sale of this collection to the American Library Association to help fight this injustice.
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