I've been writing all of my life and was first published at the age of ten. My poem, "The Garden," was a flower-filled fantasy that so surprised my parents and teacher, they all insisted I send it to the local newspaper editor. I lived in a very small town--without a lot of local news--so my poem got published!

I continued writing and had a number of poems and short stories published in my high school newspaper, as well. Whenever the editor had an empty spot, in fact, he would contact me and I would dash off a poem or short story to fill the space. My writing time dwindled during college and marriage and children and careers--other than the obligatory term papers, then corporate proposals and later, grant requests--but I still found time to write poems from my heart.

Along with constant fiction reading, singing with a group, Christmas baking and aerobic dancing, I also got a kick out of occasionally visiting psychics with my friends on Saturday afternoons. Every single psychic I ever saw looked at my palm and said, "Oh...you're a writer." While I had always believed it, I finally began to act on it and when, years later, I visited an ancient cemetery in the lowlands of Georgia, one of the spirits there reached out to me and my first novel, THE CONSORT CONSPIRACY, A Covington Family Mystery, was born.

I now live in St. Augustine, Florida, and I'm still ten-years-old inside...until I start to write, that is. At that point, tales of murder and mystery take over my being and demand to be told .

I love--in addition to my darling husband, my two awesome grown children and my four perfect grandchildren--Christmas, cartoons, circuses, carousels, and chocolate.