Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf

Mabel Goldenaxe just doesn't fit in with the other girl dwarves-and she likes it that way.
To please her father, and encouraged by her older brothers, she goes to work in the emerald mines. Still, she dreams of a better life-and becoming Gilliam's top axe-throwing champion just might be her ticket out. Mabel is torn between her love of the sport-and her love for the elf Aramis. But loving an elf is forbidden.
Dealing with her overbearing family, jealous friends, and deep family secrets, Mabel will have to summon all her strength to conquer her fears and become her own dwarf-lovelorn or otherwise.

Author Sherry Peters lives in Winnipeg, where she spends her days working at St John's College at the University of Manitoba, and her evenings and weekends writing. Her first short story, "The Greatest Honor" (Aoife's Kiss, September 2007), went on to be featured in their best-of anthology "Wondrous Web Worlds Vol. 8". Since then, her two novels, "Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf" and it's sequle "Mabel the Mafioso Dwarf" have been nominated for the Aurora Award for best YA novel, and "Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf" won the 2014 Writer's Digest self-published e-book award in the YA category.
Sherry graduated from the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2005 and earned her M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in 2009. During her time in both these programs, she he developed many techniques to detect and silence her inner saboteur.