Stories begin in different places and take different shapes. Ember to Spine publishes books across genres and formats, connected by one thing: the belief that readers should be invited into a story, not assigned to one.
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Catalog
Browse the catalog below. Each title includes more about the story, its place on the Reading Path, and links to purchase or explore further. Some pages are still being completed.
Frannie the Ant is a gentle early reading story and the first stop in the Reading Path, inviting new readers into a warm story world with clarity, rhythm, and confidence. A gentle book ideal for bedtime, early readers and short story times. Activities in the back allow you to keep engaging with Frannie after the story!
Sarah and Abby is the first in a three-book journey, designed to grow with the reader while following the same world and beloved characters. Told across six accessible chapters with story artwork throughout, it introduces Sarah, a little girl growing up in the Australian Outback who believes the world holds more than she can see. A warm first chapter book about friendship, wonder, imagination, and the courage to believe.
Book 3 in the trilogy. A full-length novel in the world of Sarah and Abby. Sarah is now grown, a gifted quantum scientist still carrying the beliefs she formed as a child in the Australian Outback. As she searches for a breakthrough in quantum communication, those old beliefs collide with science, skepticism, and the limits of what can be measured. Constellations Aligned is a story about discovery, doubt, and the possibility that some things we believe without evidence may simply be things science has not learned to explain yet.
A full length novel inspired by the author’s own experiences, Shoebox War opens a little-known corner of the Cold War in 1985. A young Special Forces soldier comes of age in the heart of Africa, where friendship, duty, love, loss, and secrets become tangled together. Told through the objects left behind in an old shoebox, the story looks back across forty years at the moments that shaped a life and asks a final question: how much of the past ever truly stays buried?
Following in the footsteps of Sarah and Abby, The Great Fire is the next step (Book number two in the trilogy) in Sarah’s journey and in the Reading Path. With more chapters, longer passages, and an expanding vocabulary, the story invites the reader to do more of the imagining for themselves, creating their own pictures of the world rather than relying on illustrations. When belief is tested by something impossible to ignore, Sarah and her father discover that wonder can look very different once doubt enters the room.
Being Edited: Set against the changing American West of the Comstock era, Wayward Cowgirl follows Laura Crown, a fiercely independent young woman determined to save her family’s Nevada ranch without surrendering the land, her freedom, or herself. As old loyalties collide with ambition, love, and a West being transformed around her, Laura discovers that preserving a legacy sometimes means having the courage to change it.
EDITING NOW: Bring Me Home is a gripping story of memory, identity, promise, and unfinished love. James Lister is a young man troubled by memories that cannot possibly be his: the vibration of a helicopter beneath his hands, the smell of jet fuel, a war fought before he was born, and the face of a woman he has never met. When those memories lead him from an abandoned Army training base in Texas to a helicopter lost for decades in the jungles of Vietnam, James begins to uncover a story that has been waiting a lifetime to come home.
A Novel Way of Writing is a how-to book, a practical guide for turning a story idea into a finished book. Built around the same outlining, chapter-bucket, dictation, and revision process used to complete multiple Ember to Spine titles, it breaks the work into manageable pieces and gives writers a clear path from first idea to final manuscript. It is less about writing perfectly and more about building a method that helps you keep moving until the book is done.
Being Developed: The Fossey Tapes is a historical thriller set against the political fault lines of Cold War Africa. When a big time crime reporter is assigned a small town story, what looks like fluff story of an old 1975 kidnapping, the search pulls him into a current world of shifting alliances, covert policy, proxy conflicts, and governments pursuing interests they rarely explained in public. Veterans, buried operations, and forgotten decisions begin connecting in ways no one expected. Part investigation, part military mystery, and part political thriller, The Fossey Tapes asks what happens when yesterday’s secrets survive the people who made them, and someone finally starts listening to the tapes.
