Speculative Fiction
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.
January

“You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories.
The money’s in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.”
˜Larry Niven, Science Fiction Writer (b. April 30, 1938)
March

“The beginning is always today.”
~ Mary Shelley (b. 30 August 1797 – d. 1 February 1851)
January 2025

“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come / Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ~from “Robin Hood and Maid Marion”
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (b. 6 August 1809 – d. 6 October 1892)
Another great review for On Spec #125
Another great review for On Spec Issue #125. Many thanks to Victoria Silverwolf at Tangent Online.
https://tangentonline.com/print-quarterly/on-spec-125-fall-2023/


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