Me & Mickey - Runner Up Faulkner Wisdom Award
Runner Up - 2025 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Novella
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About Me & Mickey
Literary Noir: Short Novel - Dry Humor
Me & Mickey is a darkly comic Midwestern noir about bad luck, worse decisions, and the one friendship that somehow outlasted both. Told with bone-dry humor and Coen-esque absurdity, Me and Mickey is a short Novel about friendship, fate, and the long shadow of one bad night. In Our Time meets Fargo.
(30,000 words)
Winner Pikes Peak Writers Zebulon Award
Winner Pikes Peak Writers Zebulon Award
The Short Story expert Rent Money: A Me & Mickey Story (Unpublished) was the winner of the Pike's Peak Writers Group 2020 Zebulon Award.
The Price of Ash - Novel
Finalist - 2025 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Books of Fiction
Finalist - 2023 Colorado Gold Rush Literary Award for Main Stream Novel
Finalist - 2025 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Books of Fiction
Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society
About The Price of Ash
Finalist - 2023 Colorado Gold Rush Literary Award for Main Stream Novel
Finalist - 2025 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Books of Fiction
Amid war and the brutal charcoal trade in Congo, Peacekeeper Ina Bishop rescues a young boy conscripted by militia forces. With the boy’s life and his own soul on the line, Bishop must choose between his desire for revenge and his need for redemption.
Finalist - 2023 Colorado Gold Rush Literary Award for Main Stream Novel
Finalist - 2023 Colorado Gold Rush Literary Award for Main Stream Novel
Finalist - 2023 Colorado Gold Rush Literary Award for Main Stream Novel
Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers
Blue Helmets - Available Soon
Finalist - 2025 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Book in Progress
Finalist - 2025 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Book in Progress
Finalist - 2025 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Book in Progress
Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society
About Blue Helmets
Finalist - 2025 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Book in Progress
Finalist - 2025 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Book in Progress
Novel -UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The genocide is just the beginning, for Rwanda, and for the people sent to help rebuild it.
Set in Rwanda in the summer of 1994, in the uncertain weeks following the genocide. Blue Helmets is told through the eyes of a young American UN volunteer named Toni, and explores the space between bearing witness and taking action, and the cost of trying to do both. Toni may never change the world, but she can stand her ground in it.
(Proposed length 75,000 words)
Zebulon Award
Grand Prize Winner
Grand Prize Winner
Pikes Peak Writers Group
Short Story
Grand Prize Winner
Grand Prize Winner
Grand Prize Winner
E.M. Koeppel Short Fiction Contest
Short Story
First Place
Grand Prize Winner
First Place
Short Story
Finalist
Third Place
First Place
Nonfiction
Third Place
Third Place
Third Place
Writers-Editors Network
Annual International Writing Competition
Short Story
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