Biography

I was born, ironically enough, late at night. Why ironic? Authors are notorious for late-night spurts of creativity. For some, those moments begin early.

At the ripe-old age of five, I wrote my first book. Entitled “The Sun,” this work of literary genius contained such awe-inspiring passages as, “The sun is yellow.” It was a ground-breaking success among the Kindergarten of Roadrunner Elementary. On the heals of this success, I went on to write absolutely nothing for many, many years.

One sweltering summer, my mother – in what can now be easily identified as a desperate ploy to keep her five children occupied for a few hours during the never-ending summer break – implemented a summer writing challenge. That summer's efforts produced the first ten pages of “The Mystery of the Broken Unicorn” - my first experience with a plot idea that simply didn't work.

It wasn't until several years after earning my degree, marriage to my wonderful, if rather tall, husband and the birth of our second child that I took up my pen once more. Mercifully, I did not revisit “The Broken Glass Unicorn” but ventured into the world of Historical Romantic Fiction.

A true romantic at heart, though I forcefully deny the charge, I harbor a true weakness for the Regency era in English history. Between world war on a scale unheard of until that time, the political upheaval at home, a changing economy, the rise of industrialism and the burgeoning belief in the importance of romantic love, the early 19th Century has a little of everything.

My first novel, “The Ramshackle Knight,” was published in May of 2007 and met with raving reviews from my mother and closest relatives. Spurred on by the unbiased acclaim, I picked up the tale of one of that story's most entertaining supporting characters in the follow-up novel, “Affectations.”

From those humble beginnings came The Jonquil Brothers Series – a string of novels following the lives and loves of an aristocratic family of seven brothers. In addition to the seven-book undertaking, I have crafted other historical fictions set in this time period and there is no end in sight.

When not writing I occasionally sleep, once-in-a-while cook dinner for my family and very rarely clean my house.