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I’ve
been an avid reader all my life. Growing up in a small rural town,
I survived long summer days reading one book after another. My book
friends kept me company and fueled my imagination. My
life took the path of wife, homemaker and mother of two sons. I studied
Interior Design and was a certified Emergency Medical Technician, taking
time off to be a full-time mom. When the boys were in high school,
I went back to work as an Executive Assistant/Office Manager, first
for a machinery broker, and presently for a landscaping firm. When
my sons left for college, I pursued another passion: horses. We moved
back to the country where horse shows and trail riding filled my time.
After my sons graduated, got married and settled down, I got serious
about writing and began putting the words burning inside onto paper.
I took creative writing courses and joined a writers guild. I attended
Open Mic nights and to my surprise, I loved it. When I got laughs where
I wanted laughs, and tears when I wanted tears, I was hooked. In
1997, ’98, ’99, I had short stories published in anthologies
by Outrider Press, and a story in Detective Mystery Stories in 2001.
In 1997, I won second place in a writing contest sponsored by NOW.
In 2003, I had my first major publication: A Change of
Command in Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover’s
Soul. A second story: Finally Success – A
New Me! appears in the January, 2007 edition of Chicken
Soup for the Dieter’s Soul. My first novel, Remember Me, a story of romantic fiction, was published in May 2007 by Five Star Expressions.
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