I have been singing since I was a toddler and writing creatively since I was a teenager. I always wanted to be a novelist, so I attended San Diego State University with a major in Comparative Literature. My love of music and penchant for poetry segued into becoming a lyricist and singer in a band called, Saratoga Park. We recorded a couple of CD's over the years.
Fast forward through jobs and raising a family - where most creativity was put on the backburner - to this last decade where I found myself knee deep in genealogical research. At first it was due to curiosity about my father's family, then it became a calling after my maternal grandmother passed. This passionate endeavor led me to the discovery of a family trauma that really touched me. This, combined with local historical research, inspired me to write the ghost story, "Under the Tracks" - the first novel in The Douglas Town Chronicles.
Now it seems I've come full circle in my life, and found the path back to my attic of imagination filled with creative creatures who are more than happy to come out and play.