Behind the byline

About the author

I write The Heiress and the Veterinarian, a serialized soap opera set in a small town called Misty Hollow, where the residents are ponies and the problems are entirely human — inheritance disputes, municipal code violations, bad marriages, worse secrets, and a veterinary practice staffed by two ponies who can't stand each other for approximately forty episodes.

Tabitha Fershund is an heiress determined to live as a commoner, at which she is bad. Dr. Thomas Fairfax is a veterinarian who used to have magic and would rather not discuss it. Around them: a Bigfoot healer, a fan who writes gore-fic about Tabby, an animal control officer with a flexible relationship to protocol, a priest who performs the occasional exorcism, and a secret organization that has been quietly arranging their family trees for millennia.

Two seasons and sixty-odd episodes in, posting from the beginning. I write it the way soaps run — ensemble cast, overlapping arcs, dramatic irony doing most of the heavy lifting. Slow-burn romance at the center, mystery and small-town politics around the edges, dry humor throughout. Nobody learns a tidy lesson.

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