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I was born in California, my family moved to Minnesota after eight years, and then we moved to Texas when I was fourteen. No, we were not a military family; we just had family in those states and moved with them. I still live in Texas, but the restless urge to move to another state rises and falls within my nomadic personality.
After graduating from U.T. Arlington with an M.Ed., I began teaching English and Literature to middle school students and then changed paths to teach a comp and lit at a technical college. Though I dream, like every other author in the world, of spending all my time writing and traveling, I love my job of teaching. Teaching gives me the chance to meet new personalities, form new ideas and create new characters or actions for my books from bits and pieces of life.
My writing career began at an early age, with the nurturing of my second grade teacher who entered my poem for class into a newspaper contest. I won and was published. Seeing my name in print, even at that young age, was an incredible feeling along with the emotion my poem stirred in family members and friends. I found that writing provided me attention I desperately needed within the codependent environment where I grew up.
Following the publication of my poem, I began writing daily, reading as much as possible, and while at community college, I sent out short stories for publication. Looking back at them, they weren't very good, but I was striving for that chance of breaking into the world of writing. I wanted to see my name in print, again.
My dream was fulfilled in 2008 when I received a phone call from an independent publisher who was interested in my manuscript for a children's book. After No More Stinkbugs! was released, I moved into the booming world of self publishing. The internet became my best friend and my research skills roared into action. I have since published 10 more books for children and young adults, and am awaiting decisions by publishers on an interactive classroom book about bullying and on my new adult romance novella, BTW, I Love You, that I wrote for the first ever NaNoWriWee--a grueling thirty hours of writing--competition.
When I'm not writing or teaching, I enjoy traveling, reading, sewing, cooking, relaxing and working on our small horse farm, swimming, and spending time with my husband and daughter. I also love roller coasters. Sometimes, I am an emotional roller coaster. Still, my family tolerates me and they are my sounding board, my inspiration and my teammates in this journey to live the dream of an author.
I was born in California, my family moved to Minnesota after eight years, and then we moved to Texas when I was fourteen. No, we were not a military family; we just had family in those states and moved with them. I still live in Texas, but the restless urge to move to another state rises and falls within my nomadic personality.
After graduating from U.T. Arlington with an M.Ed., I began teaching English and Literature to middle school students and then changed paths to teach a comp and lit at a technical college. Though I dream, like every other author in the world, of spending all my time writing and traveling, I love my job of teaching. Teaching gives me the chance to meet new personalities, form new ideas and create new characters or actions for my books from bits and pieces of life.
My writing career began at an early age, with the nurturing of my second grade teacher who entered my poem for class into a newspaper contest. I won and was published. Seeing my name in print, even at that young age, was an incredible feeling along with the emotion my poem stirred in family members and friends. I found that writing provided me attention I desperately needed within the codependent environment where I grew up.
Following the publication of my poem, I began writing daily, reading as much as possible, and while at community college, I sent out short stories for publication. Looking back at them, they weren't very good, but I was striving for that chance of breaking into the world of writing. I wanted to see my name in print, again.
My dream was fulfilled in 2008 when I received a phone call from an independent publisher who was interested in my manuscript for a children's book. After No More Stinkbugs! was released, I moved into the booming world of self publishing. The internet became my best friend and my research skills roared into action. I have since published 10 more books for children and young adults, and am awaiting decisions by publishers on an interactive classroom book about bullying and on my new adult romance novella, BTW, I Love You, that I wrote for the first ever NaNoWriWee--a grueling thirty hours of writing--competition.
When I'm not writing or teaching, I enjoy traveling, reading, sewing, cooking, relaxing and working on our small horse farm, swimming, and spending time with my husband and daughter. I also love roller coasters. Sometimes, I am an emotional roller coaster. Still, my family tolerates me and they are my sounding board, my inspiration and my teammates in this journey to live the dream of an author.
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