2009 Golden Heart® winner for best Contemporary Series, I planned to be a published author from an early age when I started with stories such as “The Gigantic Talking Raisin” and “The Jumping Socks.” Unfortunately, it was not yet my time to shine. Skip ahead a few years and I tried my hand at poetry, but since this was done only when bored at school, and usually to the detriment of a substitute teacher, it wasn’t quite my forte either. But by then, I had discovered my mother’s romances and knew I’d found what I would one day write!

Skip ahead a few more years, a son, college, a technology career, and it’s safe to say the writing career got put on hold, but never forgotten. In 2005 I began seriously studying the craft with the intention of putting to end my dreams and making them my reality. Now it’s only a matter of time before I hit upon the right story and the right editor!

I’m a contemporary romance writer striving to build characters and passion that’ll bring readers back time and again. As I travel the journey to publication, I hope you’ll check back often and share the trip with me!

03/29/2011: I have an agent!

I am now represented by Jill Marsal of the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency!

03/01/2011: Spolight, finalist

Spotlight has been named a finalist in The Write Stuff’s, contemporary romancee category!

02/28/2011: I’m a winner in the Winter Writing Festival!!!

01/10/2011: I’m participating in the Winter Writing Festival!

12/31/2010: Spotlight, contest placements

 1st in Utah RWA’s Heart of the West

1st in San Francisco RWA’s Heart to Heart

1st San Diego RWA’s Spring Into Romance

2nd in New JerseyRomance Writer’s Put Your Heart in a Book

3rd in Central Ohio Fiction Writer’s Ignite the Flame