I was raised in Santa Cruz, California. I graduated from California University, Chico with a degree in microbiology and worked in a laboratory counting cells and other funky microbes until I got married. I now reside in the Central Valley.
My husband of 34 years is an attorney. We raised three children. Our 29-year-old daughter has recently decided not to turn 30 this year. She is a savvy English teacher in Oregon. Our 27-year-old son finished grad school, and now has joined the computer tech world of the Bay Area. Our last child, a 21-year-old daughter, is on sabbatical from college, and is currently climbing up the ladder at a certain coffee establishment that you can find on every corner.
I’ve created fantasy stories for as long as I can remember and told them verbally to our children. They got tired of me changing a story with each new telling, so when we got our first computer, I was able to write their favorite versions down. I knew nothing of writing, so I took a class. My teacher told me to write about something I knew. The one thing I knew a lot about was hemophilia because our son has the disease. I began writing a short story where the trials and tribulations of my main character were taken from my own experience with the disease, and those of other parents I knew. I sold the story idea over the phone to an editor in New York. The story was bought two months later and published four months after that. I was elated.
Although fantasy is my genre of choice, I wrote four short mystery stories published in 2006 on the e-zine Crime & Suspense. One of these stories, “Honor Thy Father,” was published in Crime and Suspense Anthology 2005-2006. The fourth story, “Retribution,” won third place in a contest for Clued in Press for short mystery fiction.
My fantasy novel Vam'parian, will be available through bookstores and on-line later this year.
I was raised in Santa Cruz, California. I graduated from California University, Chico with a degree in microbiology and worked in a laboratory counting cells and other funky microbes until I got married. I now reside in the Central Valley. 
I’ve created fantasy stories for as long as I can remember and told them verbally to our children. They got tired of me changing a story with each new telling, so when we got our first computer, I was able to write their favorite versions down. I knew nothing of writing, so I took a class. My teacher told me to write about something I knew. The one thing I knew a lot about was hemophilia because our son has the disease. I began writing a short story where the trials and tribulations of my main character were taken from my own experience with the disease, and those of other parents I knew. I sold the story idea over the phone to an editor in New York. The story was bought two months later and published four months after that. I was elated.