I've just finished my novel, "Don't Worry the Sheep," and am currently seeking representation.

Gregg, a great outdoorsman, has made plans to take his wife Jenna, a thirty-something, by-the-book career professional, to walk the 96 mile West Highland Way in Scotland. Jenna likes to follow a schedule, and the hike was something they planned to do together. But Gregg has disrupted their arrangements and isn’t going. He’s dead.

When Jenna reads an email confirming their vacation, which begins in two weeks, she panics. With the funeral and her grieving, she’s forgotten all about it, and it’s nonrefundable. Without Gregg, there’s no way she could go. He warned her never to hike alone, and she’s not strong enough to go through life without her husband at her side.

Marti, her best friend at the office, offers to go with Jenna and help her work through her grief. Jenna considers. Gregg has left behind binders of notes and research, and she wants somehow to find him in the Scottish Highlands, using his notes. Jenna needs Marti to help her find Gregg, but what she learns is something unexpected.

Don’t Worry the Sheep is a novel about a woman coming into her own, and discovering that sometimes in life, there is no plan.

Published:

I have a creative, non-fiction story published in the January 2018 issue of The Ocotillo Review called "Ferry to Dublin."

Illustration by Catherine Castoro