Hi and thanks for visiting my website! I'm an author, horse-lover, underdog advocate, and dreamer. I like writing about animals and, occasionally, about humans. Here's the story of how I became a published author! I was born in Southern California, but I grew up all over the western U. My family was not military, just nomadic. After each move, I found myself immersed in a new school culture--and so I learned fast to become an observer. I studied the kids in each town and attempted to adapt to their ways, their slang, and their clothes.
I was the perpetual outsider. I brought my pets and my diary with me everywhere I moved--two things I couldn't live without. I recorded my thoughts and feeling into my diaries, and I also wrote stories and poems. After school, I volunteered at local stables so I could ride horses for "free".
I set a goal when I was very young to become a published author and to own a horse. I wrote my first novel, The Spotless Forest , when I was nineteen.
I submitted the full length novel to publishers back then I had to print the entire manuscript and mail it , only to have it rejected for being "too long for middle-grade readers" this was pre-Harry Potter. She reared every time I rode her, kicked me twice, and trampled me once.
Needless to say, I loved her dearly. Then unexpected events derailed my writing for fifteen years--I fell in love, got married, and had a baby! This wasn't part of my life plan, but it's turned out to be the best part. I had a second baby, and then adopted a third! My husband and I moved our beloved children, pets, and horses to a little ranch in Northern California. When my youngest child entered kindergarten, my fingers twitched to write again. In , I wrote and self-published my third novel, The Pet Washer.
