I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn.

Trash Heaven has been Didi Duke’s home for as long as she can remember. The dumping ground of the galaxy provides her with everything she’s ever needed or wanted. Except, maybe, the attention of her inventor father, always busy with his next creation. Good thing he’s passed on his talents to his sixteen-year-old daughter. With the company of her best friend—the cyborg crow, Pip—Didi is happy to scour her territory for treasures discarded as trash. But, when an evil Underlord kidnaps her father, Didi can no longer hide herself away in the garbage. Her plan to resurrect a retired cyborg gunslinger and rescue her dad leads her into danger and the heart of the rotting planet—Trash City. She’ll figure out the rest of her plan—eventually.

Didi and the Gunslinger

Didi surges to her feet, scowl pulling all of her facial muscles into spasm it's so tight. "Hang on a titch," she says, interrupting the end of their little production. "There's a matter to be settled."


Gammitt turns, casual like, and looks down his long nose at her, pale eyes cold and calculating. "That being?"


"My payment." Didi feels small in the tall man's shadow, though she knows she has GS and Bo behind her, Pip perched on the cyborg's shoulder. She's hardly alone. But the looming oldster stands over her and from what she's just witnessed is a master of intimidation and argument over nothing.


"For what?" His voice is softer now, like she's not worth his effort. And his gaze tells her he's done with the show, ready to go home and ponder just how his daughter managed to screw him out of what he was after all along.


Chapter 40: Payment