I am a teacher, a mother, a writer and a reader, who learned the joy of fiction as a small child watching her mother let the potatoes burn because she was absorbed in a book. I have been telling and writing stories as long as I can remember, and trying to give back to the book world what it has given me, though that isn't really possible.
My major influences have been the countless authors who have kept me company through the years, especially Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, and Henry James. I started writing seriously in 1998 after reading LaVyrle Spencer's preface to her fi more...
