I have written all of my life, beginning with stories penciled on old greeting cards when I was about seven years old. My first paid publication was a poem for the Canadian magazine Chatlaine, at the age of eighteen, and several years later my first non-fiction article was published in Great Britain's History Today. I went on to have a modest career as a magazine journalist before turning to books. Various English teachers in high-school encouraged my writing, though looking back, I think much of their emphasis was on what I would now call 'purple prose.' Nevertheless, they inspired me to keep going. The single book that brought me to begin writing and to take on non-fiction was a book about the African-Americn singer Marian Anderson called Deep River Girl, Marion's life story. I found that book in third grade at the bookmobile that stopped once a week one street from my home. That book showed me that everything has a story and that perhaps I could tell some of those stories in whatever way I felt the could or should be told.

My books have garnered many awards, among them:

2012 Winner in the Spirituality Category in the London Book Festival for Spirit Stones

2012 Winner in the Spirituality Category in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards for Spirit Stones

2010 Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Power's Garden