I have been a prolific reader since I was a very young child when I learned to my amazement,that the alphabet could form words. I was off and running! At nine years old, I boarded the book mobile that came to my 2 room school and did not get off until I was thirteen. I took that rolling library like the grasshoppers took Kansas, devouring everything in sight. I read all of the childrens classics: Dickens, Dumas, Hugo, Mark Twain etc. At 10 years old I was reading A Tale Of Two Cities.....I am a story teller: had I lived in another time, I would have been a jonguleur. I have been encouraged along the way by teachers, family, and friends. I became the director for a little theater group and also wrote two musicals, several one act plays and numerous skits in my four years with the group. I have raised five children and two foster children and now I am finally getting to write my books. At my very first signing of Sweet Annie, I sold 83 books at my local Borders Bookstore and I have been on this rollercoaster ever since and it has been quite a ride. I still have much to do and I am so thankful for Microsoft Word because I doubt I could have accomplished much on a typewriter so in essence, I was waiting to launch my career until the invention of the pc.

Besides breaking the record at the Borders Books for author events, I have been nominated for an award in childrens litature. I will come back and edit this cite should I win. I have been interviewed by a new magazine that will make its debut in February. They are doing a feature story on me complete with photos. I will also edit this site with that information as soon as the veil of silence on that publication has been listed. I have some wonderful things going on in my life right now.