The girls are out!

Read my new, weekly blog, posted every Thursday.

http://outsidergirlswrite.blogspot.com
Outsider Girls are not the popular girls, or even the average girls, but the have a lot to say. Some of the girls who write here also appear in novels or short stories, but what they post here is where the girls express what may not make it into a complete work. Some are new characters, some are from older books, like Nancy from Crosses, telling about her life now,. Meet the grrlz!

This week features Gemma, a character from a recent short story who wakes up to discover she's grown wings as the result of her mother's addiction to faery dust.

Selected Works

Young Adult Fiction

Crosses
Nancy and Katie are best friends with one big thing in common -- they both cut themselves, “Not by accident, we do it purposely -- and regularly -- because physical pain is comforting, and because now it has become a habit.”

Weird on the Outside
When sixteen-year-old Tracey runs away she finds that making ends meet in New York City for a young girl with few real skills is nearly impossible. That’s when Tracey becomes Amanda, a topless dancer.

Tomorrow Wendy
“I’ve discovered that if you wear a big enough hat, no one worries much about what’s going on inside your head,” says Cary. And no one, not even her boyfriend, Danny, knows about the things inside Cary’s head. Especially the feelings she has for Wendy, a girl with bright green hair and hard-candy sadness in her eyes.

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