Fifty-four monologues and dialogues, a remarkable distillation of rhythms and nuances from the region of the heart.

“Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unfl inching honesty.”—Publishers Weekly, on the work of Jo Carson“She is a quintessential community artist with a true ear for the way people talk and what they really mean to say. Her work has inspired innumerable young artists to take up work with their own communities.”—Linda Frye Burnham, Community Arts Network“Human experience is varied and astonishing,” notes Jo Carson, “and this is a taste.” A uniquely American w...

“I’ve spent about 15 years plus some working with people’s stories in a series of communities in this country. I write plays from oral histories for those communities. Just finished my 30th. I’m watching people’s lives and communities literally change, sometimes drastically, for the work. Spider Speculations is the beginning of trying to understand the hows and whys of all the changes.”—Author Jo CarsonJo Carson lays bare her personal investigation into her own creative pr...

When evil rises, one clumsy witch must save the world.Cassie Black inherits from her crazy Great-Aunt Ophelia a sentient coffee-house, complete with an inter-dimensional portal. Determined to find her aunt’s murderer, Cassie becomes well-acquainted with her aunt’s life and her dream of creating a haven for supernatural beings. What Cassie finds lurking beneath the small town is a nest of infinite darkness ready to invade the world. She alone can stop it.Warning: This story in...

Dial WitchTrouble brews when a psychic enchantress shares her magic.When the sorceress Jane Black offers spells, potions, and tarot readings to the regular folk in her small town, she finds herself in a cauldron of hot water. Despite her good intentions, spells spiral out of control, potions backfire, and people turn against her. As Jane’s problems multiply, a drool-worthy dragon enforcer arrives on her doorstep and gives her an ultimatum.While the universe...

Jilted by her fiancé, librarian Maddy Jacobson is nursing a broken heart, when her best friend gives her an early Christmas present. Intended to be a fun, psychic reading in a spooky, tea house, the gift turns out to be life-changing. Maddy becomes haunted by a mischievous, Highland ghost.Ruggedly handsome, Cullen Macfie, the Highlander, has been dead for over three centuries, and never in all those years has he been so attracted to a woman, as he is to Maddy. He falls hopelessly i...

As the janitor in a haunted house, Abby Jenkins has many contacts with the living and the dead in the small Pacific Northwest town of Sunset Cove, which puts her in a perfect position to solve local mysteries. Or so she thinks. Hired to find diamonds hidden in a haunted manor she gets help from a Viking ghost with existential issues. Will she survive? This book contains bad-boy ghosts, mischievous magic, and a woman who knows what she wants in a Viking hayloft.

When Cassie Black, a clumsy young witch who likes to party with vampires, inherits a sentient coffeehouse in a small Pacific Northwest town, her life turns upside down and becomes a living nightmare. Her new home is a battleground for supernaturals, where primal forces of good and evil fight for ultimate control. As darkness threatens to consume everything around her, Cassie realizes it's up to her to stop it.Cassie's estranged aunt built the magical coffee house called The Perfect...

Fangsters, a novelGangsters with bite.I should have known better than to sign a deal with a blood-sucking blackmailer. But what choice did I have? Alessandro, one of the most powerful vampires in all the realms, holds my deepest, darkest secret in the palm of his hand.Within fourteen days, I must start an academy for delinquent teenage vampires, or he’ll expose me. If my skeleton ever fell out of the closet, I would be ruined. My family would disown me, my ...

A Double Shot of Magic~ a recipe for love ~.The Perfect Brew Trilogy, book 2When evil rises, one witch must save the world. Cassie Black is a sorceress struggling with her growing powers and chaotic love life. As the guardian of a portal, she must stop a dark force spreading its influence in her small Pacific Northwest town.Cassie's friend Larry is shot twice in an alley. Clenched in his hand is a note, which reads, "BEWARE BLACK WITCH." The note could mean ...

Single mom Abigail Jenkins takes the only job left in town: night janitor int he haunted teahouse. She figrues this won't be a problem because ghost don't exist. A lighthearted novella filled with love, laughter and just enough ghoulishness to thrill and chill you to the bone.

~ triple trouble, boil, and bubble~Can an enchantress stop evil from taking over the world? In the third book in the Perfect Brew trilogy, Cassie Black, a powerful witch with a serious caffeine addiction, faces Erebus, The Lord of Darkness. With the help of a sexy warlock, a vampire who doesn’t understand the word “no,” and a very-human detective, she searches for a way to banish the dark overlord forever.It’s been months since the Erebus raised his head, but when an artist ...