It all started with a book...

I was just over seven when I picked up a chapter book and read it for the first time. I was seriously disappointed. There was a huge buildup for a story, then the ending just... dropped the ball. I remember thinking in my seven-year-old mind "I could do better than that!" I complained to my mother about it, and she issued the challenge that changed my life. "You can do better? Okay, do it!"

So began a life-long love of books, stories, and writing. Even when life took me in other directions, as I became a paramedic and wife and mother, writing was never far from my mind. I scribbled little stories in random notebooks when I wasn't paying attention in class. I made up longer stories in my mind, and told them to my son in sections as he grew. 

But it wasn't until my thirties that I realized it was time to devote myself in all seriousness to what I loved doing. With the full support of my husband and our boys, I picked up my laptop and got to work.