Born in Ohio, I grew up in small mid-western towns, reading for escape.  I dreamed of living in a novel and wrote my first book in fifth grade.  After a business career, husband, and the birth of four sons, I wrote My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park, winner of the Writer’s League of Texas Manuscript Contest.  I have a BA from Mary Washington College, an MBA from the University of Houston, studied creative writing in the SMU CAPE program, and belong to the The Squaw Valley Community of Writers.  I live with my family in Dallas where I have discovered that, through writing, it is entirely possible to live in a novel for a good part of each day.