Want to read my novella? It’s available on Amazon in ebook and print formats!

This book caught me a bit by surprise. In so many ways.

But once I started working on it, it quickly lodged in my heart. (“Big Love” was previously published in a novella collection titled “Coming Home.” The current version has a new epilogue that hilariously moves the characters forward.)

When I decided to write this book, my wife and I had just finished touring the Tiny House Road Show (photos below) when it stopped here in Indianapolis. On a subsequent weekend trip to Cincinnati, we brainstormed a couple ideas about how the novella could be approached.

Bedroom of the swanky one, with an actual closet!

Looking down a row of tiny houses.

Deb waiting in line for this tiny home. Very nice inside.

My wife, Deb, in a tiny house kitchen.

One of our simpler favorites.

Inside one of the swanky tiny houses.

Probably our favorite overall from the Tiny Home Road Show.

We do love a good front porch.

What if?

What if the man in the story was a writer for an architectural journal who thought himself too sophisticated to do a story on tiny houses? What if the woman was the president of a company building tiny houses with the idea to use the proceeds to battle homelessness? Then, what if both of these people had experienced homelessness in different forms and it had drastically affected their lives, but in different, opposite ways?

Found on the Northside of Indianapolis. The spark for my main character.

But I still couldn’t seem to get the story started.  One day, I’m driving around the Northside of Indianapolis and I spot a street sign for Timberly Drive and the voice of my female character just pops into my mind and starts talking.

I’m just going to put it out there. My name’s Timberly. Yeah, Timberly. Get over it. I did long ago, okay? What can a girl say? My father, the dealmaker, cut what he called a “win-win” with my mother. Trouble is, there were three people in the deal and only two of them “won-won.”

From there the story began to unfold. A theme paragraph emerged: Homelessness expanded her world and constricted his. Now she needs his help, but he only remembers the pain. Can they find big love in a tiny house?

Want to read my novella? It’s available for preorder on Amazon in ebook and soon to be in print!