Here are a few of the things I've had published and produced.  I will save you the anguish of enduring the 20 sonnet-stanza poem I wrote about Tithonus and Eos in 1987.

Through the Harvest is my debut novel.  It is not the first novel I've ever written, but those early exercises will never see the light of day.  As a writer, though, it was interesting to me how pieces of completely separate things I had drafted, especially the character of Buddy in Through the Harvest, made their way into this story, though changed in some ways.  Apparently he didn't belong in the original story I had crafted for him; he belonged here, and I just hadn't realized it yet.

Book Blurb:

Abbie Hardin never fully banished the shadows of her sexual assault nineteen years ago by her friend and neighbor Drew Legrange. But when Drew moves back to take over his family’s orchard after his dad’s heart attack, Abbie is forced to examine the emotional barriers she has constructed to protect herself and the distance they put between her and her son Evan, who she conceived from that assault. Evan discovers he is curious about the father he never knew and was raised to hate. When Abbie hires Buddy, a soft-spoken drifter who keeps his past to himself, to work on her farm, the paintings he creates of her and their unexpected intimacy open her eyes to the woman that detachment and torment have made her. Attracted to a vagabond without an identity, afraid her son may follow in his father’s awful footsteps, and living across the creek from the man who assaulted her, Abbie realizes that the person she became to survive no longer suffices when her past becomes her present again.

Far From the Tree is a short film I wrote based on portions of the novel Through the Harvest. Produced by WOW Films and starring Cheryl Griffin-Allison, Gabriel Rush, and Angie Bolling, the film gives a poignant glimpse of Abbie and Evan's lives as they struggle when the past resurfaces.  The short film screened at film festivals around the United States, England, and Australia, including the famed TCL Chinese Theater (formerly Grauman's) in Hollywood, at the HollyShorts Film Festival.  The film and its cast and crew won multiple awards, and I was honored to receive awards from IndieFest and LA Shorts for the screenplay.