The Maniacal Scrapbooker

Social Satire (Dark Comedy), 19,000 word novella, complete

The Maniacal Scrapbooker is a twisted tale of how one woman’s obsession with the activity of scrapbooking and an idolization of Martha Stewart verily ruins her family.    

Set on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine, the story of arts and crafts gone bad in middle class America is told by the obsessive crafter’s intellectual teenage daughter, Toma Beatty. Growing up in a family of people spinning in their own orbits, Toma details the pivotal moments of dysfunction that shaped her family’s attitudes, actions—and ultimate ends.