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I’m Crystal — wife to my high school sweetheart, mom to two ND teens, and an aeronautical data analyst living in St Louis, MO. Once upon a time, I instructed in small airplanes, operated movie theater projectors, and did the college thing at Purdue University (Boiler Up!). Love wine, hate sports.
Represented by: Tina P. Schwartz of The Purcell Agency
My How I Got My Agent via my Query Tracker Interview.
Favorite books: The Half-Life of Love, The Wicked Deep, House of Hollow, Neverworld Wake, Far From the Tree, All Our Yesterdays, They Both Die at the End, The Words We Keep, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
Favorite shows: New Girl, Schitt’s Creek, The Office, The Vampire Diaries (+spinoffs), Supernatural, The Haunting of Bly Manor
On Submission – 86k YA Contemporary: ACCIDENTAL PEOPLE
WIP – NA Paranormal:
IT COMES FROM THE WELL
Dual POV of two women centuries apart:
On the verge of being married off by her abusive mother to be an 1840s New England housewife,
Liliana Gray accepts a magical pact with a Well:
Eternal life to quench her thirst for knowledge in exchange for her mother’s soul;
But almost 200 years later, when the Well now requires her children for more time,
She must learn to accept what mystery lies after death before she loses the only meaning she’s ever found.
On the verge of losing her dad to the mental damage she somehow caused in a car accident,
Eli Powell seeks the childhood home of the mother that abandoned them is search of help;
But when she discovers a town under a spell and a family secret spanning centuries,
She must let go of her anger with her mother before the Well of Gray Manor keeps her forever.
Vibes: The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Sirens
WIP – NA Contemporary
YOU WANT BUTTER ON THAT?
The employees of the local movie theater are just trying to get through their shift. The pranks and after-hours shenanigans help blow off steam, but when the owner announces his plan to sell the place, they strike a deal: bring in enough dough by the end of the summer to pay off the owner’s debts, and he’ll keep the place running. But one of them is sabotaging every effort.
Vibes: Empire Records, Waiting, Breakfast Club
In Major Revision – NA Speculative with time travel:
IF I HAD MORE TIME
(formerly: GUARDIAN LIGHTS, unpublished)
In a world similar to ours, two sisters are emotionally torn apart by their parents’ fatal plane crash. Years later, an argument is interrupted by a burst of light. When the light goes out, one sister is gone. While the remaining sister puts together clues from her childhood to find out what happened, the other, a budding pilot following Dad’s influence, has slipped to the year 1929, a golden age for women in aviation. To find their way back to each other, they’ll have to become the sisters they should have been, but at the cost of their futures heading in opposite directions. Can they walk away from new dreams for the sake of family?
Vibes: The Unmaking of June Farrow, Frozen 2
My latest blog posts follow the first 3 days of my 9-day family vacation to Orlando’s Disney and Universal. I also posted a series of takeaways from the Writer’s Institute 2019 writing conference (Madison, WI), as well as a shout-out to the wonderful authors that inspired me.
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