writing Books:
KISSING DRAGONS (forthcoming from Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
- High-school senior Melissa Callahan can't remember a world without dragons, a world without air-raid sirens, subterranean
shelters, and memorial services. A world in which her mother was killed on the national news.
After fifteen dark years, the war between Monster and Man finally seems over. Most of the dragons have been killed or
confined to reservations, and there hasn't been a major attack in North America since Melissas family moved to an Army
outpost in Kansas three years ago.
But when Melissa reluctantly partakes in the local mischief of choice - sneaking onto the rez to pose for internet fame around
a sleeping dragon - she becomes an unsuspecting pawn in the war about to reignite. And the repercussions will go far
beyond anything she could ever imagine.
Shorts:
"Dance of the Pscyhopomps." The Blackness Within. Ed. Gill Ainsworth. Apex Publications, 2010
- A doctor treating patients for a trichinosis outbreak in Chiang Mai, Thailand, becomes the centerpiece in a game of souls.
bio At some point in the exuberance of my youth, my mother nicknamed me "Sunshine." Then I hit third grade, started writing books about WWIII (complete w/ pics). By 5th grade, my wars had expanded to the universe. Mother was worried. Over the years, I've continued to worry Mother, but at least the writing's improved a skosh (the drawing sure hasn't. Wanna good laugh, invite me to a game of pictionary).I live with my wife in San Antonio, TX. We have a fat cat named Mouko (Japanese for fierce tiger. Kind of like naming me Sunshine) and a black lab, Anubis. You can call me Joshua, Josh, J, Bane of Anubis... but please don't call me Sunshine. Makes me squirm.I'm repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette of EMLA
