Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} I am a writer, runner, and compulsive list-maker who lives in Philadelphia with my family, a fat cat, and several fish. When not writing, I enjoy reading, running races for charities, helping the planet limp along, and spending as much time in Key West and the Adirondacks as I can. I have always been a creative soul. I remember writing stories since the age of six. I decided that I wasn’t cut out to do anything else years ago, in college. Creative people must have creative outlets, and writing is mine. I write contemporary fiction that is character driven, slice of life, emotionally challenging, but infused with humor. Dark and irreverent, usually, but hey. If you can’t laugh, you’re finished.

My debut novel Running Against Traffic is a Global Ebook Award nominee, a current semifinalist in the The Kindle Book Review’s 2013 Best Indie Book Awards, a semifinalist in the Readers’ Favorite 2013 International Book Award Contest, Indie Book of the Day, June 30, 2013, a 2013 Beach Book Festival Award nominee, and has received a four star review in InD’tale Magazine. It has also been chosen by the Quality Reads UK Book Club to be a finalist in the Orangeberry Book Tours Hall of Fame.