"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers." ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "All Trivia," Afterthoughts, 1931

Stories have whispered in my soul since I was a child, it just took me a very long time to bring them into the world. I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the baby boom era. After that, I led a nomad like existence when my family moved from town to town, state to state—thirteen times in my first eighteen years. Needless to say, I was shy, and constantly searched for a place where I felt grounded. To find that ‘safe place’ I often withdrew into books.

Sometime in my pre-teenage years, I knew I wanted to be a writer. I remember the moment, just not the age. I had tucked myself in the corner of the room, on my bed with my nose pressed into a book. My existence at that moment had traveled far from my reality. I was either an apprentice to Nancy Drew or planning on how to keep Old Yeller alive. I do know at that moment, I looked up at my younger sister who’d been talking to me and said “I’m going to write books.”

From then on, I stole moments to write down my thoughts, visions, and those whispers. I wrote stories for fun in Junior High and High School, but it wasn’t until far into adulthood that I tried to make sense of twenty years of rambling, musing, reflecting.

Eventually some of those whispers made it into a published novel, so now I am a novelist. Go figure. Also, I’m a columnist, freelancer and write short stories. I’m past president and founder of the Peninsula Writers’ Association and past director and creator of the Gig Harbor Writers’ Conference.

Studying my craft has always been paramount to me, whether in critique groups, reading books on writing or attending workshops. Over the years, I’ve been to a few including the prestigious Napa Valley Writers’ Conference where I attended Ron Carlson’s workshop; at Centrum I worked with Bret Lott. In addition, I applied for and was granted a residency at Jacquelyn Mitchard’s One Writers’ Place. There in nine days of solitude I let the whispers flow and a few months later, I finished. A Light in the Heart. In 2018 I started a series of romance novels set in magical places around the world. In October 2018, I released the first in the series World of Love with the novel set in France--Where We've Been.

I live on an island in the Pacific Northwest Washington with my two dogs.