Writer of diverse science fiction, fantasy and horror from Michigan. I failed many math classes in high school to write first drafts of the books I've published. It was worth it. I think that a story should be entertaining, but should handle important social and class issues in order to be an accurate portrayal of our world. I value honest resolution over shock-value, and happy endings wherever possible, especially for my LGBT characters. None of my books will ever use artificial intelligence, because AI 'stories' are theft. You can find me on Instagram @ZoominLumen Or follow me on Goodreads for sales and announcements. TO YOU SHALL ALL FLESH COME is a HORROR/COMEDY novel. (Coming in April of 2024! Available in ebook and paperback.) A surgeon and his team ensnare vampires, harvest their organs to donate or to sell on the black market, then tag them like sharks and release them back into the wild. Encased within the tracker attached to the heart is a toothpick and a monitor of the levels of human blood in the vampire's system. Their levels rise too high, and they get death by toothpick. It's a barbaric new method to keep vampires docile. Apparently, they've been on the honor system this whole time... FAULT is a SCIENCE FICTION/HORROR novel. A grieving mother hunts a sea monster across oceans and decades. (Out now! Available in ebook and paperback.) THE BRIDE HUNT OF ELK MOUNTAIN is a SPECULATIVE/SCIENCE FICTION novel. When a small town ritual threatens the lives of three sisters, their friend returns and forms a plan to save them. (Out now! Available in ebook and paperback.) MONSTER MIDWIFE is a FANTASY/HORROR novel. A human midwife travels a fantasy world delivering a myriad of monster babies. (Out now! Available in ebook and paperback.) TRIAL OF THE LOVEBIRD BUTCHER is an URBAN FANTASY/THRILLER novel. An antiquities dealer and stage magician is tried for a series of abductions which occurred when he should have been only a child. (Out now! Available in ebook and paperback.) CLAIRE GOT HERSELF IN TROUBLE is a YA/NEW ADULT CONTEMPORARY novel. A portion of all proceeds go to Planned Parenthood. Angsty teen Renee risks a promising future to get her best friend the abortion she needs. (Out now! Available in ebook and paperback.) MONARCH FALLS is a SCI-FI MYSTERY novel. (1st in the FOUR QUARTERS OF IMAGINATION SERIES) Stella is an amateur PI in over her head tracking a fugitive through a high-tech, scripted playground for the rich with a seedy underbelly. (Out now! Available as an ebook and paperback.) FIRE FIELDS is a SCI-FI MYSTERY novel. (2nd in the FOUR QUARTERS OF IMAGINATION SERIES) Stella works the abduction of her boss -the Head Designer of the Four Quarters of Imagination- by a radical human rights group. (Out December 1st, 2023. Available as an ebook and paperback.) THE UNDESIRABLES is a WWII THRILLER. In an alternate timeline where the Allies lost WWII, Maren is a telegraph operator in the Nazi occupied Rocky Mountains, stealing Axis secrets. (Out now! Available as an ebook.) ROMANI and ROMANI: AMBASSADORS were the first two parts of a trilogy that I started when I was seventeen. At the time, I intended to bring awareness to an underrepresented and much maligned group, in a story about how the privileged in our society have a moral responsibility to help the less fortunate. I have since decided that I did not have the right to be telling that story, and have unpublished both books.