Writing Projects
I'm in the query trenches with ANYWHEN right now.
While I'm there, I'm also working on my column and writing fiction.
Check out ANYWHEN's pitch deck and my other WIP below.
ANYWHEN
Young Adult, Speculative Fiction
THE FOUNDING DAUGHTERS
Young or New Adult, Historical Romantasy based on fact...
A murderer, two orphans, and a sister with a secret sail to a new world where three will choose a pioneer or soldier as their husband.
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Eighteen-year-old Jeanne must escape France before she’s charged with the murder of her husband. The dying wish of seventeen-year-old Elizabeth’s father is for her to be a bride in New France, avoiding a life of prostitution. Seventeen-year-old Anne’s parents are dead, and her half-brother, the heir to the family title and fortune, banishes her from the family estate. Thrown into one of the most notorious 17th century hospital prisons for loving another woman, eighteen-year-old Perrine is rescued by wives of the hospital staff.
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These four teens will meet on a ship, their lives forever entwined as Filles du roi—king’s daughters—in a program financed by the crown to populate the colonies. Three will find husbands, all four will find love, and together, with their partners, they will start a new magical nation.
Who were they?
"The Filles du roi (or roy) were part of King Louis XIV's program to promote the settlement of his colony in Canada. Some 737 of these women married and the resultant population explosion gave rise to the success of the colony. Most of the millions of people of French Canadian descent today, both in Quebec and the rest of Canada and the USA (and beyond!), are descendants of one or more of these courageous women of the 17th century."