My current work-in-progress, A Million Dollars is a Million Dollars, follows an idealistic campaign staffer as she combs through the hacked emails of a sleazy politician — and discovers a conspiracy that ensnares her personally.
 
The novel starts halfway through a tense congressional campaign. Claire, a 25-year old political junkie, is burned out from her last job in the field Iowa. She joins an opposition research firm where she is charged with digging up dirt on Frank Wild, a congressman whose intense climate change denial Claire finds abhorrent.
 
Claire's hopes for work-life balance are dashed when a third-party hacker gives her firm access to Frank Wild's email account for 48 hours. Stuck at the office, combing through the strange, intimate fragments of Wild's human life, she is surprised by the empathy she develops for the politician — which is further tested when she discovers a disturbing connection between Wild and Claire's own mentor. 
 
The reading experience of A Million Dollars is a Million Dollars will be both radically new and deeply familiar to readers. It will be radically new because readers will get the text entirely over email, in real time, as the story unfolds: After signing up, readers will receive (in bcc) the first message on a Thursday morning, and will watch the story unfold as Claire communicates about her findings with her colleagues.
 
I believe this will be a new narrative experience — there are very few email narratives in practice right now. But as a reading experience, it will feel eerily familiar to audiences to increasingly our world and our relationships through screens.
 
The roots of this project began with my award-winning literary film, "Belated" (Narrative Magazine, 2015) which takes place entirely in an email inbox, with typing recorded on the screen. The theme continued in my first novel, True Story, which explores the many ways we all shape a "self" for public consumption through different forms of writing and communication. A Million Dollars is a Million Dollars is already opening new channels and pushing my work forward, and I believe it will represent a breakthrough in my career.

Tracing the fifteen-year fallout of a toxic high school rumor, "True Story" is a riveting, astonishingly original debut novel about the power of stories—and who gets to tell them.
2015. A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she can't tell: the story of, as she puts it, "the things that happened while I was asleep."
1999. Nick Brothers and his lacrosse teammates return for their senior year at their wealthy Maryland high school as the reigning state champions. They're on top of the world—until two of his friends drive a passed-out girl home from of the team's "legendary" parties, and a rumor about what happened in the backseat spreads through the town like wildfire. 
The boys deny the allegations, and, eventually, the town moves on. But not everyone can. Nick descends into alcoholism, and Alice builds a life in fits and starts, underestimating herself and placing her trust in the wrong people. When she finally gets the opportunity to confront the past she can't remember—but which has nevertheless shaped her life—will she take it?
An inventive and breathtaking exploration of a woman finding her voice in the wake of trauma, True Story is part psychological thriller, part fever dream, and part timely comment on sexual assault, power, and the very nature of truth. Ingeniously constructed and full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the final pages, it marks the debut of a singular and daring new voice in fiction.