My banter-packed novel, Silver Buckshot: Magic, Mystery, and a Most Aggravating Boyfriend, is available for your reading pleasure. Read the first chapter here.
Description
Thirteen-year-old Princess Flavia has endured a lot recently. Polio crippled her legs and killed her mother, her father is sunk in grief, and her servants veer between negligence and cruelty. She takes refuge in her books and never complains.
But she draws the line at being murdered. Fourteen-year-old Frank Barron, a contender for the most aggravating boy in the universe, conceals her when the shooting starts. This is no accident: a letter told him what to do. It’s signed, “Love, Flavia.” She has no memory of it, and, anyway, she can’t tell the future! Or fall in love. Can she?
The story is set in 1972, the year I was the same age as Flavia. This lets me use an early teen’s experience of the zeitgeist for free. I leverage my own experiences in other ways, too, in spite of the fantasy elements. For example, Flavia’s polio is based on my father’s.
Table of Contents
- First Handshake.
- Behind the Arras.
- Inaccurate Fairy Tales.
- Penetrable Disguise.
- Room Service.
- Ticklish Situation.
- Houdini Bathtub.
- Louisa Delphine Marianne Maréchal.
- Fifty-Dollar Bill.
- Pistole Italiane.
- Gym Clothes.
- Dinner for Three.
- Bedtime Story.
- Reverse Psychology.
- School Daze.
- Life Imitates Art.
- Creatures of the Night.
- Damsel in Distress.
- Too Young.
- Free Blood.
- Holmes and Watson.
- Youngest Profession.
- Altar Ego.
- Prune Princess.
- Foot of the Table.
- Half-Empty Glass.
- Home on the Range.
- Duct Tape.
- Biological Warfare.
- Rancho Vampiro.
- Dinner Bell.
- Instant Camera.
- Starlight.
- Smithereens.
- Blood Plasma.
- Sleeping Beauty Kiss.
- Double Suite.
- Wall Safe.
- Hot Lockets.
Read Chapter 1 online or buy the book here.
Happy reading!