Biography

My love affair with writing began the day my best friend, Kim, showed me her “novel”, an illustrated tome about her cat. Impressionable eight-year-old that I was, I decided to write a novel of my own. 

Needless to say, that novel, The Adventures of Ginger the Cat, failed to hit the bestseller’s lists. Neither did my second effort, The Tame, Tame East, an all female version of the Robert Conrad TV series. That didn’t matter. I was hooked. In high school, while other kids played Pac-Man, and checked out the Eagles’ latest, I was in my room pounding out stories on my manual typewriter.

Looking back, I see now that romance played a central role in my stories from the beginning. No matter what genre I wrote (and I wrote all of them), I always inserted a happy ending. Heck, even The Adventures of Ginger featured a wedding. To me, there’s nothing more captivating than the anticipation of seduction, and the rush that comes from finding true love.

Today I craft stories that try to capture that rush. In 2000, Neighborhood Press published my debut novel, Chandler’s Law. The novel received positive critical response, including Four Stars by Romantic Times. A second novel, Harry’s Return, followed a year later.  Unfortunately, my small press career ended abruptly when Neighborhood Press closed its doors.

After a couple years off, I returned to writing fulltime. In 2005, my manuscript This Groom For Hire, finaled in RWA’s prestigious Golden Heart contest for Best Traditional Manuscript. Two year’s later I made the GH finals again, this time for Best Short Contemporary. To my delight, that manuscript, Weekend Agreement, won!  

A life-long Yankee, I currently live in Massachusetts with my own true love and our teenage son. We also have two cats, neither of whom will have a book written about them.