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Growing up in a small town in north-central West Virginia in the 1970’s was like living in a loaf of white bread. No social upheaval like the 60’s, no music television revolution like the 80’s and little to no encouragement for a young writer born into an All In The Family archetype. There was no talk of college or anything else really, so I did what my parents did, married the first thing I laid and started my family straight away.

 

I began my first attempts at storytelling when I was a new mother outlining novels and screenplays between T-ball practices and loads of laundry. But I was young and dumb, so these works lay incomplete at the bottom of my dresser drawer for years.

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My ignorance to what a world of writing could mean to me was blissful only until around my twenty-eighth year when my prefrontal cortex developed, and I realized that I had made a grave error in judgement. Lucky enough, the legal system will let you divorce your husband of ten years with nothing but $1000, three kids, a dog and $600 a month in child support.

 

Then came the “jobs”. There was nursing assistant, LPN, sales rep, addiction recovery out-patient and twenty-eight-day programs, night shift on the psyche ward at the veteran’s hospital, then – BOOM! Kid number four! Yes, twenty years and two husbands later, I gave birth to my daughter and woke the hell up!

 

After Kate, I only changed jobs thrice more to become a licensed massage therapist, a kinesiology instructor at my massage school, and finally an anatomy instructor at the junior college. It wasn’t until I was face to face with teaching a math class – A MATH CLASS – that I re-evaluated my life plan and decided to give writing my full attention. Compiling a bank of stories and characters from all my other lives, I began to weave them into my own signature tales of life and love. 

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That was five years ago. To date I have finished my debut novel, Cold Daughters, my second offering, Just DIY, my 2023 release, The Value of Miss M (all available on Amazon and Audible), and my latest project Extreme Human Overload, published by The Henlo Press and available wherever you buy your books, as well as directly from the publisher in paperback at thehenlopress.com.

 

That's not all folks! I assure you, there's so much more to come. I hope you'll return often to look for my up-and-coming pieces, let me entertain you with my craft, and allow me the opportunity to count you among my followers. 

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