Kerri Schlottman
writer of novels & other things
In the gritty backdrop of rural Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Lulu's encounter with a trucker outside a rundown motel is captured on film by aspiring photographer Quinn who is passing through town. While the image launches Quinn's career, Lulu fights to survive in a volatile home. Decades later, Quinn's "Lulu and the Trucker" has fetched a staggering price at auction as she's preparing for a retrospective of her work. Lulu, grown and struggling to make ends meet, stumbles upon her own image in the newspaper. Determined and emboldened, she attends Quinn's exhibition talk with a single burning question: Why didn't you help me all those years ago?
Examining power, privilege, and the sacrifices one is willing to make to succeed, TELL ME ONE THING boldly asks what each of us owes one another and what we owe ourselves.
A Shelf Awareness Best Book This Week, a two-time 2024 PenCraft Fiction Award Winner, and a 2023 American Book Fest Best Literary Fiction Book Finalist
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DAYTIME MOON
Coming May 2026 from Unnamed Press
Whales are dying. Women are missing. And Isa is adrift. She’s struggling to make ends meet in the hustle of New York City where she no longer fits in.
When Dane, the man who raised her, becomes terminally ill, Isa returns to the California desert she ran away from as a teen. There, she's swept up in her former life—late-night drag races with her brother Cole, tacos and beers with the locals, and haunting reminders of the mother she never got to meet.
Upon Dane's death, Isa is gifted a letter that sets her and Cole on a journey up and down the California coast in search of the family they never knew they had, while the memories of those they find challenges everything they thought they knew.
DAYTIME MOON is a story about hidden stories and a reflection of how those who are gone remain in the memories of others. Steeped in metaphor and inspired by ecofeminism, the novel explores our human connection to the ailing environment and draws parallels to the need to heal ourselves to heal the earth.
