In “real
life,” I am a medical transcriptionist, working
at home on the computer via modem. I also do freelance
editorial work for a well-known medical publisher, being
on their editorial advisory board. I'm 45, divorced,
a single mom with a teenage daughter and six cats.
I've traveled quite a bit and
lived many places, including a year in Cairo, Egypt
as an exchange student, and a year in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia. I was in Desert Storm and the Northridge Quake,
and I've tromped through chest-deep snow before dawn
to guard the buffalo from slaughter in Montana. I've
been in the Army (including a short stint with NATO),
a postal worker, a security guard, a legal secretary,
and a wrangler/trail guide at a dude ranch. I've been
the manager of a Greek delicatessen, owned a motorcycle
and driven an 18-wheeler. I studied Arabic, which I
still speak somewhat fluently, karate, tap dancing and
belly dancing. I was a folk dancer for many years and
still occasionally give classes in that.
I'm an HTML junkie and have four
domains of my own. Other hobbies include painting ceramics,
loom beadwork, tooling leather, and, naturally, reading.
I'm always a sucker for animals, and my menagerie over
the years has included horses, a rabbit, a rat, a hamster,
Maine Coon cats (thank you, Anne McCaffrey!) and the
occasional foster dog from the local Humane Society.
I'm an alumni of the University
of California Santa Barbara and the American University
in Cairo, and I belong to Romance Writers of America
and Mensa.
My favorite authors are Georgette
Heyer, Anne McCaffrey, J.R.R. Tolkien and Dick Francis,
followed closely by romance novels by Nora Roberts,
Iris Johansen and Kay Hooper. And most recently, of
course, I've become a Harry Potter fan! I'm following
very closely the movie productions of both Harry Potter
and the Lord of the Rings.
All this aside, a writer is who
and what I am... a romance writer. I write what I know,
and what I know is romance. Dozens of story lines and
literally hundreds of characters live and breathe within
the not-so-narrow confines of my imagination, and it
is my joy and pleasure to bring them to life, to share
them with others by writing their stories. I'm very
fortunate in my daughter who is very supportive of my
writing. She brings me endless glasses of tea, is understanding
when I suffer agonies over sentence structure, cheers
me on when I'm on a roll, brags to all her high school
friends about her “writer” mom (and by the
way is a marvelous brainstorming partner), and who has
had to learn to cook and do laundry in self-defense!
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