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Nice to meet you, future super-fan! I’m Haylie. I am a YA sci-fi and fantasy author, and professional super-geek. Before you ask, yes, it’s totally a thing. You can be one, too, if you believe in yourself and own too many fandom Funko POP’s.
My head is a fantasy world of magical portals through the multiverse, teams of superheroes and villains, secret heists, curses and dragons, and, at the center of it all, girls who don’t need superpowers to realize the strength to save the day was inside their heart the whole time. Add a dose of hilarity and not taking ourselves too seriously, and you’ve got a great story!
I want all of you to come on journeys of magic with me. To geek out with me. To be the nerds we were meant to be! I love the quirky, oddball side of life. Do you? Let’s be nerd besties and take on the world!
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Haylie
I am from California, but we move around a lot due to my spouse’s job. My favorite place we’ve lived is Japan. Be jealous.
I was a teacher for seven years prior to my career shift to writing. My students thought I was weird. They weren’t wrong.
I have an uncanny ability to trip while standing still.
Star Wars. This is the way. I have spoken.
Other fandoms—MCU, ATLA, Stranger Things.
Pretty much any cool sci-fi, as long as it has robots and space ships and big, furry Wookies… oh, wait, that’s Star Wars. See item one.
Super heroes! I’m a Marvel girl, but make an exception for Wonder Woman.
All she needs is a sign…
Callie James has never been good at anything except surfing and being the misfit family slacker. But after successfully building a robot to compete for the last spot in Verona Beach High School’s exclusive robotics program, it could be a sign she’s found her calling—until her thieving siblings break her project. Running out of time before junior year starts and seriously short on funds for new parts, Callie is desperate for things to break her way. All she has to do is swipe the car from her jerk-face older brother, sneak off to a tech store an hour and a half away, and brave the insults of a burrito-loving clerk to come out on top. Surely the shimmering golden whirlpools only she can see and the tingling of a thousand stars inside her fingers are a sign things are looking up, not an omen of horrible things to come.
He’s seeking answers in the shadows of the past…
Nate hasn’t been back to Verona Beach, California since the time Before. Coming home on a mission to find a mysterious something for an even more mysterious She wasn’t on his agenda, but when a chance to prove himself calls, Nate answers. Except, Verona Beach is the scene of his worst tragedy, and brings up painful memories Nate would rather forget. Adding to his troubles? If anyone sees his true, monstrous form, his mission will fail before it gets off the ground. Yet something in the waves calls Nate—something he knows is important. Can he learn the truth before his secrets threaten to reveal his identity? Or is the something he’s meant to find actually a someone he never expected to meet?
Join Callie and Nate on their quests for signs and answers in this YA science fantasy prequel novelette set the summer before the events of World Diver.
An anthology of tales about the most bewitching hour…
We hope you’ll join us on a journey through almost forty stories in various genres, including romance, fantasy, thriller, paranormal, and even a little dystopian. Something for every reader exists in this magical anthology. Only one question must be answered:
Will you meet me at midnight?
Grab your FREE copy from Amazon using the link below! Also available at Barnes and Noble.
Coming March 2025 to your favorite book retailer!
College, grades, extracurriculars--who cares? Sixteen-year-old slacker Callie James would rather make robot creations and surf waves with her best friend Will. Then she discovers a mysterious glowing rod under the ocean surface, and her entire world turns upside down. One, her hands start glowing (weird). Two, she can now control people (awkward). Three, she accidentally brings her robotics project to life. Classes were hard enough without her robot Nemo literally eating her homework.
Only the reclusive Dr. Ormandi knows the truth: Callie is a Luminaut (aka a light wizard) and it’s her destiny to reunite the shattered multiverse by collecting all the Light Cores (aka the glowstick of doom) in all the other worlds. To do this, she must repair the World Diver, the fifty-foot tall robot lurking in Dr. Ormandi’s basement hangar.
As Callie learns about her Luminaut powers, Nate crash lands into her life. He’s hot. Funny. Crazy about her. One problem: he’s technically dead. Oh, and he insists uniting the multiverse will destroy everything.
Pursued by murderous interdimensional phantoms and plagued by insecurities, Callie must protect her family and friends, while figuring out who to trust. And all before a deadly, looming evil snuffs out her Light for good.
Coming March 2025 to your favorite book retailer!
Callie James crash-lands the World Diver into an alternate dimension. She kind of needed a Seer to help with piloting. Too bad she was busy escaping evil hottie Nate Ormandi to worry about that.
Now she’s stuck on Tremurheim, a mysterious world of tree-vikings and soul-sucking mist monsters.
But somewhere on the planet a Light Core calls to her. Now she just has to find it as part of her quest to unite the multiverse. A quest she’ll complete no matter what stands in her way.
The only local who will help is Toran Rykjiersen, who’s basically a jerk. But he’s also desperate to get his little sister Heike off Tremurheim—even if that means aiding a dangerous “skyfire sorceress” like Callie.
Meanwhile, evil dude Nate must capture the Light Core of the world Ictari. As an undead Shadowmancer, finding Light isn’t his forte, but if he fails, his master will end him the rest of the way. Permanently.
As Luminaut and Shadowmancer race to find the Light Cores, the line between hero and villain blurs. And the quest that Callie holds dear might lead to the very evil she hopes to prevent.
Coming March 2025 to your favorite book retailer!
Callie’s Light Cores are gone. She’s imprisoned in a desert world. Her Seer Toran blames her for the death of his sister. Oh, and the Queen Beyond the Stars is one step closer to destroying the multiverse.
So, things are just great.
Callie must find the remaining Light Cores before the Queen’s evil Shadowmancer minions do. But this world’s Light Core is hidden at the center of a homicidal death maze that only a Luminaut can conquer. Figures, right?
To make things more fun, formerly evil, mostly undead (and still smoking hot) Nate Ormandi arrives to help Callie and her friends. And he’s got Toran’s very much alive sister with him. Surprise!
However, as Nate and Callie work to conquer the death maze, Toran keeps leading them into traps. Is Callie’s grumpy Seer trying to get them killed, or is someone else pulling the strings?
Time is running out. The Darkness is stronger than ever. As the line between enemy and ally blurs, the last Luminaut will face a terrible choice, one that will change the whole multiverse forever.
I’d love to meet you, geeky reader! My social media accounts are the place I connect with my Nerd Squad— aka, my street team of all the amazing people I love talking to and fan-girling with. Want to get in on the action? There’s always room in the Squad for one more.