A collection of mini-rants on how bad some stories can be... Thanks to NotSoPoetic for the cover. Co-written with NotSoPoetic and TheQuillMaster. :D

President Apollonian from the planet Blaroff hates Earth. It ruins the view from his country house -- and the music is just way too loud. Clearly, it must be destroyed. Only Hope Layton, a 16 year-old music prodigy at David Byrne High School, stands in his way. Will she be able to stop him in time? Will her high school crush, the absolutely DREAMY Cliff Calloway, help?

In the land of Asbon, where peace only exists in broken shards, the legend of a castle has been handed down for generations. Once upon a time, there was a great castle. Everything around it was perfect, and everything inside was beautiful. However, beauty doesn't last. The castle was broken, as was the land. In its place stood the shell of a life. Only a king with no sight and a knight with no stride remained; they guarded the castle of an empty land. Once upon a legend, a girl set out with fire in her eyes. She traveled across lands of rich and ruin, of sea and river. She met those who helped and those who hurt. And, in the end, she found the legend. In the end, she found a lie.

Between "y'all"s and "howdy-do"s, every country girl is a city lover at heart. At least, that's what Scarlett thinks. After a strange series of events involving tractors and fire, she is free to go to New York and live the big city life! But...it's not that simple (is it ever?)--what waits for Scarlett, lurking in the pollution of the city? An adventure, of course! Featuring: an encounter with a past acquaintance, unnecessarily automated machines, and maybe even--love?

Sebastian Scott was the sort of man that nobody wished to deal with. He was the sort of man that bottles his dreams like he bottles his brandy; in a dusty box deep in the cellar, never to be glanced at or touched. He was cold, dark, unfamiliar, and lonely. He was the sort of man that never left the house, never answered his letters, and left his piano just as untouched as the alcohol. But he wasn’t always this way. There was a time when the blind man had laughed, and sang, and composed the most beautiful music anyone had ever heard. He painted the world around him, with the orchestra as his great, aural brush, and everyone from miles around would come and visit him there. He had loved unlike anyone had loved, and that is what ended him.

Two stubborn-headed royals. One enemy bent on slowly destroying them. The only solution? Marriage, of course. But the moment James and Liliana meet, each hold grudges against the other, and they do not realize that their own attitudes are being used against them. Draken is determined to end the royalty in every painful way possible. When a long-expected war finally rages, things get much more dangerous. Riding on their final hope, it appears that the kingdoms are destined for destruction. Will Liliana's skills in combat and James' fiery heart be enough to withstand Draken's menacing grip? 1st book in The Crowns of Crecidia series. Watty Awards 2012 runner up in Historical Fiction.