I started reading when I was 4 years old and was never happier than with my nose in a book. At twelve I read Wuthering Heights over and over and was inspired then to want to write fiction that would transport readers to another time and place. I honed my writing style writing stories about my own life during my teens and twenties but threw out all those stories when I figured out what messages I wanted to convey with my writing in my thirites, so have been writing modern mythical fiction about very real people and problems for thirty years. I was also an attorney (a voice) for indigent clients and the fiction is just another way to give voice to people most ignored and unheard in society. 

Often a runner up (or finalist) but never a winner so stopped entering contests. My "certifications" I guess would be my degrees: BA in Psych from U of Md. and JD from DULaw School. Accomplishments are modest, winning some trials and helping some folks. Making it up to a high mtn pass or alpine lake feels like an accomplishment and I've done that a few times, recovering from cancer and chemo could be considered an
accomplishment and I've done that. Basic stuff.

A 2nd Ed. of The Nun originally published by Plain View Press in 1992 is forthcoming this year or next. Last novel, The Road Home, is forthcoming from Floricanto Press this year (I hope). Copies of two collections: Three Novellas and A Mile in These Shoes are still available (email me) and those two and my second novel, Stillbird are available as ebooks from https://secure.digitalcontentcenter.com/shop/627321/products

The Wessex Collective
this is an author's publishing collective I started with R.P. Burnham, editor of The Long Story and which includes such distinquished authors as John Wheatcroft and Helen Hudson

Page Readers
I have posted several reviews on this great site. And there is an interview and photo of me where I am most at home (mtns) thereon.

Book PLeasures
another site where I post reviews of fine books.