about me
I've been writing seriously since I was nine years old and won a National writing contest sponsored by Catholic Miss magazine. Once my babies were born, we settled into life on a 24,000 acre cattle ranch in Central California. It was the '70s. I soon found myself writing a weekly column for the King City Rustler about life in our particular neck of the woods: The Priest Valley News. Those were the days of an old standard typewriter and white out. The copy was hand delivered each week and it was a 35-mile drive to town. Technology has certainly made a writer's life easier!
I wrote all non-fiction back then. As a freelance writer in the '80s, I focused on my passion at the time; horses and the people who owned, showed, bred, and worked with horses. Horses were a main part of our life and my articles were published in several local and National Horse Magazines.
In the mid '80s I became a photojournalist for the Army National Guard and spent a decade covering floods, fires, riots, a papal visit, and more. It was an exciting time in my life and the journalism lessons learned served me well.
More changes shaped my writing life in the '90s. I had traded the life of a cowgirl with horses for combat boots and a uniform, and then found my calling as a golf and wine enthusiast. Talk about switching gears!
Life has a way of leading a person where she needs to go - if she listens.
Circumstances in 1996, led me to write Horse Whispers and Lies. The book is non fiction and refutes the stories told by author, Monty Roberts in his International Best Selling non-fiction book: The Man Who Listens to Horses.
After that came two golf course history books followed by a book about the Lodi, California wine region. After a five year hiatus, I decided to try my hand at fiction.
I'm now on my third book and final book in the Fate series.
See Previous Books.
Our stay at the Grand Luxxe at Vidanta in Nuevo Vallarta provided a spectacular start to my work on Fate of the Widows.
My sincere thanks to Barbara, Melony, Shellee and widows the world over for trusting me with your tender hearts.