Manuscripts

Book 1 (Complete): Phin York and the Giants of Wintercoombe
A 12,000-word fantasy-adventure chapter book about bravery, friendship, and staying true to yourself, where Pippi Longstocking meets The Chronicles of Narnia. 

Nine-year-old Phin would do anything to prove to herself and her faraway parents that she's doing just fine running an entire castle all on her own. She may be a princess, but she has no lords or squires, wears a crooked crown atop a nest of knots, and lives on nothing but carrot stew. But after her cousin, Wigbert Worm-in-the-Eye, steals her crown and vanishes into a forbidden secret passageway, Phin must follow him in to reclaim what’s hers.

She and best friend Tristan enter the passageway and fall into the Kingdom of Wintercoombe, where human-sized snowflakes fall, silver dragons freeze everything in sight, and legendary Giants, Corweena the Curious and Beli the Bountiful, rule. Phin convinces the Giants to help with her mission as the friends work through their fears of the unknown, their family expectations, and what friendship means as Phin tries to uphold promises made.

Series: The Moorland Manuscripts
The series follows best friends Phin and Tristan as they time-travel across mysterious worlds and become entangled in solving centuries-long mysteries. Through the books, Phin transforms into a symbol of hope for other girls in the moorlands, embodying courage and resilience in the face of everyone who says they can’t run their own castles. The series emphasizes curiosity, bravery, and teamwork, and draws inspiration from the fantastical lore of Celtic, Welsh, and Northern English history.

Gilly Green Will Sing
When a tenacious and inventive girl dreams about being a singer, her big sister isn't having it. The sisters start a bedtime note-passing battle, sliding letters of sisterly sabotage under each other's bedroom doors. But with endless ingenuity, Gilly outwits, and wins over, her big sister.

Nighttime for Everyone
Lovable troublemaker Izzy has set her heart on catching anything that glows or sparkles. But when she nabs the glowing moon and stashes it under her bed, nighttime completely vanishes, throwing the world into nonstop sunshine and mayhem. But with help from an overheated penguin, Izzy learns about the interconnectedness of all life and the importance of sharing.

Castle Crooked Creek
After a thunderstorm sweeps through the meadow where little Quinn lives, she finds an inventive way to navigate fear and uncertainty when she sees the destruction it left behind. To feel brave, Quinn gathers armfuls of fallen twigs and builds a castle right in her room. Inside her castle, she becomes a Knight who’s ready to protect her family before the next storm arrives.

Snelliot the Bold
When a gust of wind carries away Snelliot’s beloved scarf that his mama hand stitched just for him, the tiny snail embarks on a brave adventure to get it back. As the scarf drifts through the garden, he meets a world of whimsical neighbors who all presume it to be something else entirely.

Though Snelliot tries his best to catch his scarf in the wild loop-de-loop winds, it's his mama who finally does, proving that a mother’s love is boundless, and sometimes even magical.