Ghost Writers:
The Haunting of Lake Lucy

Coming in May 2024 from Monarch Press

Written in a free form style, this middle grade horror-in-verse is filled with haiku, acrostic, narrative, erasure, and reverse poems, and is suitable for readers ages eight and up.

With his fear of dark, enclosed places, 13-year-old Jayce is the last person to check out the dilapidated lake house next door. Instead, he opts to write a note to the ghost he’s convinced is haunting the house, as well as his dreams. Getting his twin sister to deliver it to the mailbox is draining his snack supply, but so worth it because: THE GHOST WRITES HIM BACK. Now Jayce must uncover the dark secret of a cursed lake—or remain haunted forever.

GHOST WRITERS: THE HAUNTING OF LAKE LUCY is the first book in a series of middle-grade horror novels where cryptic messages propel new and recurring characters to interrupt malicious ghost behavior on a haunted lake, a cursed woods, and a train of terror.