About

I started writing when I was ten years old. I had just finished reading Gone With the Wind for the first time and was incensed by the ending. I marched myself down to the closet next to the dining room on an exploratory mission to find the old hunt-and-peck typewriter my mother had used during college. I pilfered paper from my father’s desk and set up camp on my bedroom floor, intent on giving Scarlett O’Hara the happy ending I felt she deserved. At that young age, I never could have dreamed that having an overactive imagination would be the door to a future passion.

Louisa May Alcott advised, “Write what you know.” After receiving my BA in English (and working in a completely unrelated field-that happens a lot with an English degree!) I started writing as a creative outlet. In time, writing became as necessary to me as reading and I found myself amassing pages and pages of stories that I never quite managed to finish. That changed when I decided to write about what I knew. My beautiful, quirky, home state. Missouri. I drew on childhood memories to create the fictional town of Normal.

As a single mom, I wrote around school schedules, doctor appointments, work, my children's sporting events, laundry, and hastily prepared meals. I wrote anytime I could find a quiet or not so quiet moment.

Seeing my books on store shelves is absolutely thrilling. I’m grateful to Covenant for taking a chance on me, because in my mind I’m still that ten-year-old girl in search of a happy ending. If I can’t find it, I’ll write one.