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JoJo and The Freaks is a coming-of-age tale set in the sweltering Carolina summer of 1969, where a young girl confronts the shifting tides of family, friendship, and self-discovery. With the help of a gang of 1920s circus freaks who JoJo encounters during her magical reveries, she learns how to demonstrate courage and conviction, shepherding the adults in her life through a summer that threatens to break them irreparably. In the midst of conflict at home, JoJo forms an unlikely friendship with outsider artist and war veteran, Mr. Frank, who provides a safe space for JoJo while she navigates Celie’s undiagnosed bipolar and attempts to hold the threads of her nuclear family together. Against a backdrop of societal change and a neighborhood on the brink of transformation, JoJo learns to navigate secrets, grief, and wonder…finding beauty and belonging in those who live outside the norm, and in herself.

A book to screenplay project, “Jojo and the Freaks” is my first full novel that is now being produced as an independent feature film with Honey Head Films.

A girl with blonde hair wearing a striped tank top and shorts walking on a sidewalk near a yellow vintage car parked in front of a house surrounded by trees.
Clothes hanging on a clothesline in a backyard, with a house to the right and trees overhead, bathed in late afternoon sunlight. A neighborhood yard in Eastern North Carolina.
A peaceful suburban neighborhood street during sunset with a pink bicycle on the sidewalk in the foreground and houses surrounded by green trees. A neighborhood street in Eastern North Carolina
A young woman with long, wavy blonde hair gazing off into the distance in a forest with tall trees, soft natural light, and a slightly dreamy, ethereal atmosphere. Inspiration for the main character in the novel and screenplay Jojo and the Freaks
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