Biography

My dad was a printer before he retired. I remember him bringing home the Grade One Reader when I was still in kindergarten. As soon as I learned to read, I was hooked. Every year he brought home a new reader. Then I moved onto Nancy Drew. That evolved to Dean Koontz novels and Time Travels by Constance O’Day Flannery. I wrote my first short story trilogy at the ripe old age of 12. It was about three astronauts who traveled to other planets and met interesting aliens from diverse cultures.

One summer I went to visit my cousin. She had an old typewriter out (anyone remember those?). I asked what she was doing. She told me she was writing a book. A book? Only authors did that. It never occurred to me that regular, average people could just decide to be authors. The idea stuck with me. And when I was 18 I started writing novels. My first one was a whopping 50 pages long. Part one of a two part series. The novels have progressed since then.

They say you should write what you know. The only things I know are banking and bartending. Not very exciting. So, I immerse myself in research. I love learning so writing books about things and places I don’t know feeds my love of writing and my pursuit of knowledge.

I’m currently working on sexy contemporaries and disturbing (according to my critique group) suspense/thrillers. For now, I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada but hope to move to Cape Breton some day soon. If I can steal the cats away from my sister.