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

The corridor at the top of the staircase leads right and left. Bo turns right, striding with confidence to the end of the hall before taking yet another set of steps upward. These are narrower but no less perfect, this place clearly well-funded. At the top is a narrow landing and a doorway, the door itself carved with elegant swirls rubbed with gold. He turns the knob and pushes-a real knob, imagine-and gestures for her to precede him. It reminds her of Elian and Lilas and their penchant for such a movement but she refuses to let them ruin the moment.


She's free. She's safe. She's with Bo on Central. Murta is here. And she's that much closer to the gunslinger.


Chapter 73: Holovid Hero