Once Around the Graveyard

I am beyond excited to announce the publication of my second novel, Once Around the Graveyard.

Some people inherit money. She inherited a ghost problem.

Jocelyn Poe is just trying to survive being eighteen, pregnant, and newly married. But when her formidable mentor, Acacia Adams, checks into the great beyond and immediately starts haunting her with instructions, Jocelyn’s life goes from complicated to chaotic.

Acacia is on a mission: stop the mayor from turning West Elbertine’s historic cemetery into a ghoulish theme park. Armed with a ghostly army and a handful of determined senior citizens, Jocelyn is wildly outmatched. Especially when the mayor’s secret weapon is a celebrity psychic who’s not only a fraud, but also charming his way into her mother’s life. To save the dead from a fate worse than death—a rollercoaster through their graves—Jocelyn will have to embrace the weird, raise a little hell, and prove that you should never, ever, underestimate the dead.

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Summer’s New Beginnings

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

˜F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. September 24, 1896 – d. December 21, 1940), The Great Gatsby

June Musings: The Joy of Imaginative Reading

“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it—or rather, it is like living it.

It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don’t suppose many people try to do it.”

˜ Dodie Smith (b. 3 May 1896 – d. 24 November 1990), I Capture the Castle