I've been employed as a registered nurse, a freelance writer, a skydiving instructor, a volunteer firefighter, a shoemaker, and throughout my life a writer of articles, essays, short fiction, memoir, and novels. I'm a history geek, adventurer, and an avid sailor. My experience aboard HM Bark Endeavour spawned the writing of "Star-Crossed", an historical novel about an orphaned British teenager who stows away on a ship bound for Barbados during the Seven Years War.  Star-Crossed was a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age - 2007, and has been republished for adults as Barbados Bound; Book One of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series. .

Foreword Reviews Independent YA Book of the Year Finalist x 2

New York Public Library "Books for the Teen Age -- 2007"

Winner of the 1996 Maui Writers Conference Award