My YA fantasy novel Autumn and the Spiced Pumpkin Village is now available as a Kindle eBook and in paperback. This book is a short, fun, Halloween-themed novel for young teens and tweens featuring a bisexual protagonist. I essentially set out to write a book I needed when I was that age, but that didn’t exist.
Autumn was in grave danger. This magical world was no fairy tale after all, and no prince, nor princess, nor knight-in-shining-armor was coming to her rescue.
Autumn is an average sixteen-year-old girl who loves fall and pumpkin spice lattes. Autumn never imagined that magic could exist until she finds herself transported to a village inhabited by pumpkin spirits after getting lost in the woods with her best friend, Summer, the night before Halloween.
Once she arrives at the Spiced Pumpkin Village, Autumn meets a pumpkin spirit girl named Curpepa and they fall for each other almost instantly. The pumpkin spirits mistake Autumn for one of their own and insist she stay in their village until All Hallows’ Eve is over, as the veil between the spirit world and the human world is weakest during this time of year and humans pose a great threat to the inhabitants of the spirit world.
Eventually, Autumn’s charade is discovered, putting her and Summer in great danger.
Along the way in her adventure, Autumn learns self-acceptance and the true meaning of friendship.
~35,000 words