About
After graduating from college
…I worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, and then spent 20 years as a marketing professional. Over the past 10 years, I’ve had various contract assignments and then began inside operations consulting. I wrote, mostly anonymously, in all of my positions and completed five books, self-publishing two.
I stopped working as a consultant in 2022 and wrote my most recent book, Yellow Moon and Star, during the 2022 NaNoWriMo challenge. With family coming for Thanksgiving, I completed the book in 20 days.
I live in North Carolina with my husband (who patiently puts up with me while I struggle through re-writes). We own a 1962 Silver Streak camper called Eve.
If you have questions or want to be added to my mailing list, please get in touch via my Contact page. I don’t email much, but I do respond to messages and I’ll let you know if a book has been released.
When I started writing
…Edlin was the first text editor I used. Honestly, it was easier to use a typewriter. In the mid-80s when I switched permanently to writing on a computer, I used WordStar, then Word Perfect, then Microsoft Word.
I bought my first computer in 1985; it was a Compaq and I had it for seven years. I wrote my first book, The Man with the Golden Mask, on that computer. It took me three years.
My first (and to-date my only) agent was Dorothy Deering. I signed with her agency in 1992 and paid her to edit my manuscript. In 1993 when she asked for more money to publish my book, I chose to stop working with her. If my writing was so bad that I needed to pay someone to publish it, I figured I must not be any good. I didn’t write another book for 20 years. The Dorothy Deering Literary Agency and its associates were investigated by the FBI in 1999 and found guilty of fraud in 2000. Former FBI agent Jim Fisher wrote a book about it published in 2004 called Ten Percent of Nothing.
I began writing again in 2011 and completed Secret of Day, a book for middle school students, in 2012. I raised my son (with plenty of help) during those years of working and writing on the side. Mary Lou Kelly Streznewski wrote a book called The Gifted Grownup that talks about people like me. We deep dive into subjects and then get bored once we know the details. Today, Emily Wapnick calls us Multipotentialites. All that reading and learning and doing gives me a lot to write about.
