Manuscripts

For Editors, Agents & Publishers

I write rigorous, humane books where lived experience meets indepth research, contemplative practice, and cross cultural boundaries. Each project pairs clear evidence with a warm, reflective voice and practical tools for the readers.

Each project is under different stage of development.

I’m seeking partners who value depth, clarity, and market research. Since I live in many places, the best partners are those who can support international sales and marketing (US, Europe, South East Asia, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand) to a ethnically and culturally, politically diverse audience– general public, students, researchers, educators, psychologists, policy makers.

Insight As A Way of Life

Introduction to Vipassanā Meditation

A research-driven portrait of insight meditation that braids practitioner narratives, early Buddhist sources, and contemplative psychology to clarify what reliably changes (and what doesn’t), why it changes, and how practice integrates into daily life—without becoming a how-to manual. The book traces the tradition from its roots to today’s ten-day course model, then follows long-term practitioners across perception and affect regulation, ethics, intimacy, pain and depression, altered states, integration challenges, and adverse-effect reflections—closing with an evidence survey, a constructivist reading of meaning-making, and practical lessons for teachers, clinicians, and institutions.

Comparative positioning: Goldstein; Bradshaw; Sofer; Baker; Shaw; Makransky & Condon.

Status: Exclusively Through Waterside Productions. Full draft complete; proposal & sample chapters available on request.
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The Art & Science of Graceful Aging

A warm, research-grounded guide to thriving in the second half of life—blending gerontology, neuroscience, and psychology with design-for-aging and reflective practices. Credible science becomes doable habits: sleep that restores, movement that protects, food that calms inflammation, builders of cognitive reserve, and relationships that deepen meaning—plus micro-rituals, checklists, and gentle experiments (trauma- and culture-aware) to help readers age with agency.

Comparative positioning: Outlive (Attia); Successful Aging (Levitin); From Strength to Strength (Brooks); The Blue Zones (Buettner); This Chair Rocks (Applewhite).

Status: Proposal & sample chapters available.
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Embracing the Infinite

A Contemplative Guide to Preparing for Death

A contemplative, research-informed companion for meeting the end of life with clarity, connection, and peace. It blends palliative know-how and psychology with wisdom traditions to make difficult steps humane and doable: courageous conversations, hospice vs. palliative pathways, legal readiness, legacy and ritual, forgiveness and meaning, and the inner work of acceptance—paired with short meditations, scripts, checklists, and reflection prompts.

Comparative positioning: Gawande’s Being Mortal; Miller & Berger’s A Beginner’s Guide to the End; Butler; Mannix; Halifax; Ostaseski.

Status: Proposal & sample chapters available.
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Erased!

When Adult Children Abandon the Mothers Who Raised Them

A clear-eyed, compassionate look at a hidden grief: mothers who gave everything—often alone—then are erased in adulthood. Drawing on depth psychology, feminist thought, and a contemplative lens, the project gathers extensive interviews across cultures to map causes and consequences—and to explore repair, boundaries, community, and recovery when repair isn’t possible.

Comparative positioning: Edelman’s Motherless Daughters (as precedent for naming a private wound).

Status: Proposal in development; interviews underway.

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The Vexatious Litigant!

A Memoir of Judicial Corruption & A Mother’s Resolve

Falsely branded a “SLAPP’er” and then a “vexatious litigant,” sanctioned, and fined to the tune of hundreds of thousands dollars, a mother enters a twenty-three-year gauntlet to protect herself and her children—while courts twist procedure into punishment to conceal sexual and financial crimes to protect multiple criminal offenders.

A fierce, contemplative account of being punished simply for seeking justice, for protecting her children from a sexual predator, and for insisting that judges follow laws, procedures and rules.

Across seven courts and hundreds of filings, the court records vanish, intimidation escalates, threats, vandalism and harassment becomes an everyday matter, deals are cut behind closed doors of Judicial chambers and forced upon her.

Her journey from trembling pro se to unflinching advocate for women’s and childrens’ rights exposes how those sworn to uphold the law can weaponize it under the lure for bribes and corruption —threatening, manipulating, ignoring, falsifying and/or destroying evidence with impunity, depriving them of discovery, witnesses and trial—and regulatory bodies simply conceal the crimes and protect high profile criminal offenders.

Part legal thriller, part social-justice testimony, part survivor’s chronicle, this memoir shows how power and wealth hijack honesty, dignity, and duty to deprive women and children of their fundamental rights to sexual, physical and financial safety, and rights.

In this thicket of lawlessness, a single mother fights the legal machine for twenty three years—to keep her children safe, the lights on, and their spirits intact.

Comparative positioning: Virginia Roberts Giuffre‘s Nobody’s Girl; Stevenson’s Just Mercy; Harr’s A Civil Action; Chanel Miller’s Know My Name; Liotti’s Judge Mojo.

I’m open to feature, limited series, docuseries, and narrative podcast adaptations of The Vexatious Litigant: A Memoir of Judicial Corruption & A Mother’s Resolve. Editors, producers, screenwriters, ghostwriters, directors, and OTT streamers are welcome to get in touch.

Status: Tentative Proposal & sample chapters available.