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 falls asleep, too wrung out for much else though her rest isn't calm and quiet but threaded through with anxious dreams that twitch her into semi-wakefulness far too often. By the time she settles into deeper slumber, her unresponsive crow friend tucked under her chin, Didi can barely stand to think of what her life has become.


She partially wakes in the darkness to the touch of someone's hand, but the sharp pinch of a needle delivers enough of whatever it contains to drive her the rest of the way into darkness. Didi embraces it. She's not the kind of girl who just quits, far from it. But even her steadfast faith in herself and her goals have suffered far too much to buoy her past her grief and hurt.


Chapter 60: Rewrite