About Me

Writing

I come from a long line of book lovers on both sides of my family. When I was a kid, my parents read lots of books aloud—everything from Roald Dahl, Gerald Durrell, Jack Vance, James Schmitz, C.S. Lewis, to J.R.R. Tolkien. At age five, I read my first long book (A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett) and around the same time, I began pecking out my own stories on our old typewriter.

I continued to write and voraciously read from then on. My year is not complete unless I’ve read Pride & Prejudice at least once. David Eddings, Stephen Lawhead, J. K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle, and Georgette Heyer are also among my favorite authors. I love the way that fiction can reach my heart in ways that non-fiction just can’t quite manage. Seeing the world through another person’s eyes never fails to change how I see my own life.

Once I hit college, I stopped writing fiction. It wasn’t until after my daughters were born that I started writing again. I still didn’t have much time, but I worked on my book (Teloria) when I had a chance. I spent a year outlining it and figuring out background information. Then I began to have serious health issues which provided me with lots of time where I couldn’t do anything but sit. Around that time Tales from a Spacious Place fell in my lap. I put my other project on the back burner and spent more than two years working on Tales. In 2012, I self-published Tales. I then went on to write To Push on the Rock (which has yet to be released anywhere) and its accompanying Bible study, Ambivalence, Teloria: The Book of the Stars (also not yet released), Mixed Grief, A Vision of the Path Before Him (& Miss Bingley’s Mistakes), Through the Lens of a Letter, and An Honest Insult. I am currently working on The Riches of a Life Well-lived, and I hope to publish the first book in my fantasy series (Teloria) in the next year or two. If you’d like to be updated whenever I post a new chapter on my website or publish another book, join my email list.