Contempoary MG w/quirky humor and heart, Intermeidate level with publishing experience
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My MG is a quick-paced contemporary with lots quirky humor and heart. Style similar to Flora & Ulysses meets Power Puff Girls.
I have been published several times in the adult market and have had many requests for this and other projects. I write MGs, CBs and PBs. I have one young child at home and one at school. I am a member of SCBW, 12×12 and have taken many craft classes and NEED some accountability to make the time to write. 🙂 And help with big picture work.
I love humor, especially if it makes my heart squeeze. And anything by Kate DiCamillo, Sheila Turnage, Stewart Gibbs, Barbra Parker, Henry Winkler, and Michelle Cuevas to name a few.
No LGBT, horror or long winded historicals. Don’t have the experience to do them justice.
CHAPTER 1—THE MAGNETIC PROPERTY OF HOPE
Average kids have cake on their birthdays. Average kids get toys for presents. Average kids have . . . Well, other kids at their parties.
Tessa Einstein wasn’t average.
And neither was her tenth birthday party.
“Come on, Tessa,” her mom said in a sing-songy voice. “Time to cut the no-sugar-added berry tart with a gluten-free crust.”
In the maternity ward on the day Tessa was born, her mom had read in an issue of Everyday Child Genius that sugar was bad for concentration and gluten dropped IQ points. Her dad said that both had been outlawed ever since.
“Two more minutes,” Tessa called back, continuing to stare out the living room window. During the past three hours, no new cars had pulled to the curb, no new people had walked up the sidewalk, and no new emotions had been processed by her amygdala.
No, she was still lonely.
“Who are you looking for? Everyone is here.” Her mom gestured to Middle Ground City’s mayor, police chief, and the mopey clown sitting around the tart forks at the ready. “And the professor needs to get back to his phobia experiment.”
Tessa glanced at Professor Cramer’s red nose and big shoes and tried to be happy she had, at least, one halfway normal thing at her party. Then the clown began flipping through her present, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and she gave up.
CHAPTER 1—THE MAGNETIC PROPERTY OF HOPE
Average kids have cake on their birthdays. Average kids get toys for presents. Average kids have . . . Well, other kids at their parties.
Tessa Einstein wasn’t average.
And neither was her tenth birthday party.
“Come on, Tessa,” her mom said in a sing-songy voice. “Time to cut the no-sugar-added berry tart with a gluten-free crust.”
In the maternity ward on the day Tessa was born, her mom had read in an issue of Everyday Child Genius that sugar was bad for concentration and gluten dropped IQ points. Her dad said that both had been outlawed ever since.
“Two more minutes,” Tessa called back, continuing to stare out the living room window. During the past three hours, no new cars had pulled to the curb, no new people had walked up the sidewalk, and no new emotions had been processed by her amygdala.
No, she was still lonely.
“Who are you looking for? Everyone is here.” Her mom gestured to Middle Ground City’s mayor, police chief, and the mopey clown sitting around the tart forks at the ready. “And the professor needs to get back to his phobia experiment.”
Tessa glanced at Professor Cramer’s red nose and big shoes and tried to be happy she had, at least, one halfway normal thing at her party. Then the clown began flipping through her present, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and she gave up.
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