Working the nine to five grind, is bad enough, but trying to maintain the corporate shuffle while juggling your own dreams is damn near exhausting. Though I wonder about the abilities of many to lead dual lives, there are times when I want to scream enough already!! Then I look around at the same deadpan faces of my coworkers and realize I’m not alone.… Read the rest

It’s much harder to keep up lately! Working full-time and writing full-time sounded like an awesome plan for the summer. With the release of Zoe, and the next book already cued and ready to go – I have little choice. But I just recently learned that the madness is in the details. Keeping meetings, scheduling follow-up discussion with clients, maintaining employee issues, then coming home to a 1 year-old and 5 year-old visiting for the summer is more than this writer bargained for. … Read the rest

From the day I set down my manuscript amongst all the others I’ve constantly debated, and pondered the question: who will buy Zoe, who will care?

I freely admit that out of my wealth of stories, and the allegiance of readers to many of my fanfiction tales, Zoe, is nothing like anything I’ve written before or since. Yet, from the moment I penned it I believed in it’s beauty, its simplicity, its love story. So while many encouraged me to publish my gangster romance – or my contemporary tale of a dancer and her Irishman, Zoe was it for me.… Read the rest

And so it begins…..

I can say it’s been a long haul to publishing, but that would be like saying – it’s just a little chilly in Antarctica. But as the new year is upon me and my dreams of being a published author are just starting to materialize, the scrapes and bruises on this journey have been well worth it. … Read the rest