Everything Beautiful

Riley Rose, atheist and bad girl, has been tricked into attending Spirit Ranch, a Christian camp. There she meets Dylan Kier, alumni camper and recent paraplegic, who arrives with a chip on his shoulder and a determination to perfect all of his bad habits. United in their personal suffering and in their irritation at their fellow campers, they turn the camp inside out as they question the meaning of belief systems, test their faith in each other, and ultimately settle a debate of the heart.

SIMMONE HOWELLs short fiction has been published in journals and anthologies, and her short script, Pity 24, won the 2004 Australian Writers Guild Award. The film has played festivals from Australia to the United States. Simmone has a BA in literature from Deakin University. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband and their young son, and reads pulp fiction, watches ex-rental videos, listens to hillbilly music, and writes. Notes from the Teenage Underground was her first novel.