BOOKS
The Willow Tree Swing
Genre: Multi-author anthology
Status: Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
This green-themed collection by Nightshade Publishing includes Kristen’s short story The Grace Fruit. This story revolves around an OCD college student trying to keep a tomato plant green and alive as a way of coping with her brother’s recent death. However, there’s a different kind of seed that needs planting.
The Heights We’ll Fly To
Genre: Multi-author anthology
Status: Available on Amazon
This aerial-themed collection by Alex Silvius includes two of Kristen’s poems: To Touch the Sky and Where Sea Meets Sky. Both poems feature a quest for the unattainable, reaching human limits, and encountering the Limitless One.
Masquerade
Genre: Multi-author anthology
Status: Available on Amazon
This collection of short stories and poems revolves around the theme of masquerades, secret identities, and hidden truths. Kristen’s poem So It Seems is featured in this anthology.
Wither and Bloom
Status: Available on Amazon
This collection of short stories and poems revolves around the theme “love is a choice.” Kristen’s short story Mud Prints is featured in this anthology.
Crowns
Status: Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
A royal-themed collection of short stories, poetry, and art. This anthology includes Kristen’s short story Oasis, which is a Middle Eastern-inspired fantasy about a wayward princess trying to outrun the choices she’s made.
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS
Set Among Kings
Genre: Non-magical Fantasy
Word Count: 89,000
Status: Pitching/querying
Between the olive and almond groves of Elsharron, Kedar lives by the rules of the streets: guard your favorite gutter, and never go with a Promiser. But what if the king makes a promise?
After his trial for stealing ends with a shocking invitation to live with the king, Kedar cautiously accepts, hoping to find a way to rescue his street friends from near starvation and the constant threat of the underground slave trade. Kedar still has scars from the last time he believed a promise, however, and the nobles are outraged at the scandal of common blood soiling their limestone halls. Kedar’s friends are now far away, and palace life isn’t as comfortable as he thought it might be—or as safe.
Lord Asaph, the king’s chief attendant, is familiar with his sovereign’s penchant for scandals, but he never suspected the king would take in a gutter boy. To Asaph’s consternation, the king assigns him to attend the boy, whose impish nature and lack of decorum make Asaph look like a fool. Torn between his pride and loyalty to the king, he takes matters into his own hands, determined to regain his former exalted position and safeguard the interests of his king.
But only a gutter boy can recognize the slave ring lurking in the heart of the palace.
The Threefold Cord
Genre: Non-magical Fantasy
Word Count: 84,000
Status: Rewriting
An adopted prince, an exiled foreigner, and a troubled assassin must set aside prejudice and old grievances to form an unlikely alliance and rescue a beloved king who has gone missing.
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