Biography

When I was a corporate drone and cubicle dweller living in a fabric-covered cage, the creative energy of writing romance allowed my mind to escape the reality of my everyday world, at least for a while. No longer a corporate drone, I still need to give voice to the characters who inhabit my head. My larger-than-life heroines and heroes demand release, and I’m happy to oblige. I read and write romance to satisfy my craving for good love stories with happy endings.

Reading opened a whole new wonderful world to me as a child. I read anything and everything I could get my hands on, even cereal boxes. When I got older I haunted the main library in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. I can still feel the rush of excitement every time I walked through the large doors and inhaled the scent of thousands of books.

There is a classic episode from the old TV show Twilight Zone that fills me with horror to this day. A bookworm survives a nuclear attack while he's in a library, only to have his glasses break. He's surrounded by all those books and can't see to read them. This is the stuff of my nightmares.
As a preteen and teen I loved the young adult romance novels of Elizabeth Howard and the Judy Bolton mysteries by Margaret Sutton.

For as long as I can remember I've made up love stories in my head. The Thirties and Forties romantic comedies that played on late-night TV when I was growing up helped shape my love of romance.
I always dreamed of being a published author. I've worked in the corporate world all my adult life, but the dream of seeing my name on a book wouldn't die. One day in 1992 my friend Gwen and I, heavily into reading Harlequin romances, looked at each other and said, “We can write these." We soon learned that it takes lots of talent and hard work to make something look easy.

I joined Romance Writers of America and absorbed all I could about the craft of writing. I met many published authors who helped and encouraged me. I entered contests and studied all aspects of the publishing business. After ten long years of hard work, rejections and disappointments, I sold my first book, A CATERED AFFAIR, to Avalon Books. Writing is the hardest work I've ever done, but the most rewarding.

Authors are often asked where we get our ideas. I drew on a very small incident from my school days as inspiration for A CATERED AFFAIR. I used the emotions I felt then to give my characters depth and make their plight realistic.

LOGAN’S REDEMPTION, my romantic suspense from The Wild Rose Press, has garnered top reviews. Click onto the Reviews link here to read them all. LOGAN’S REDEMPTION is now available exclusively on Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook. One of the most exciting recognitions I’ve had as a writer was when I was named an up and coming author in the 2003 Affaire de Coeur magazine's readers' poll.

In December 2010, I had two new releases. MURDER, MI AMORE from The Wild Rose Press is a romantic suspense novella set almost entirely in Rome, Italy. I had fun writing this story of jewel thieves, terrorists, and an innocent American woman caught in the crossfire. There’s also an Italian hero to die for. In CURSED MATES from Noble Romance Publishing I’ve gone to the very dark side. A sexy, tortured English nobleman turned immortal werewolf, a female elite were-hunter with a scarred past, a demon bent on world domination. Very dark and very fun to write.

In addition to my books, I have had success writing short stories. My first short story, CHEF’S CHOICE, was published in the March/April 2009 issue of New Love Stories Magazine. Since then I’ve published numerous short romance stories in the confession magazines. See the list of short stories on this site. The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper published a travel article I wrote (see it on this site under Articles).

I live in Delaware with my husband and a fat, black diva of a cat named Killer

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