I chose SHADE, the first book in my YA Paranormal Mystery series, as the book that would be listed on the manifest. In SHADE, the main character creates a graphic novel about a girl who has superpowers every time she wears leotards made by rovers on Mars. When I found out I could choose which of my books to send to the Moon to reside on a lander there, I decided SHADE had to be among them. If the main character were a real person, I know she’d be delighted by this.

For my other book files, I chose the subsequent books I’ve written so far in my YA Paranormal Mystery series as well as a selection of books I’ve written in other genres.

My YA Paranormal Mystery series includes: SHADE, SHADE AND THE SKINWALKERS, SHADE AND THE CASTLE BY THE SEA, SHADE AND THE PURE-BLOOD FAERIES, and SHADE AND THE VAMPIRES OF ROMANIA. I’m currently writing SHADE AND THE CRYSTAL ORB. All of these novels deal with social issues within a fantasy setting.

My MUTATION Z: BOOKS 1-6 boxed set includes a series of novelettes and novellas that cross a number of genres: Zombie Fiction, Science Fiction and Genetic Engineering. I began writing this series at the beginning of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak that occurred in West Africa. I wrote these books as a conspiracy-theory-type story, asking the question what would happen if the United States government, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) all kept the real nature and source of an Ebola-Zombie virus mutation secret from the general population. It’s a bit eerie that I find myself revisiting this series in order to upload it to the Writers on the Moon project at a time when we’re living, in real life down here on Earth, through the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic in which a number of world leaders did indeed try to hide factual information about this virus from their citizens. COVID-19 has also begun mutating into more contagious and possibly more dangerous forms at the present time. Vaccines are beginning to be administered, however, so hopefully the history books will tell the story of how we got the pandemic under control.

My Science Fiction novel, THE OTHER, is a story about prejudice and fear and what happens when visitors from elsewhere arrive on Earth. I’m thrilled to have this outer-space-themed book going to the Moon.

My novelette, THROUGH THE TRAPDOOR: A FEYLAND STORY, was originally published in the GAME ON! anthology organized by Anthea Sharp, a fellow author in the Writers on the Moon project. It’s set in Anthea’s incredible world of FEYLAND. I chose this book because it’s about stepping into another world, the world of computer games, and so it seems appropriate that it would also get to fly to the Moon.