I have been writing for .. oh.. 20 years or so.  I hate to date myself but the time does slip away.

I started writing children’s books and had several series that I started to put together. I not only wrote a couple of books but also did the illustrations. I enjoyed it but it became more work than passion and the time invested in the illustrations was exhausting.

While I was still in children’s book writer mode, my husband and I visited Mystic, CT and walked through Mystic Seaport.  If you have never been there, it is a beautiful place and a historical snapshot of an old whaling village.  While meandering through the village and beautiful homes, I found my imagination just took flight.

It was during this visit to Mystic Seaport that I realized I had spent the better part of my childhood and adult life thinking:  “I wish I could write a book.”  In one brief moment, I caught myself saying that once again and for the first time in my life, followed that up with, “Why can’t I?”

​That was the beginning of my novel writing journey.

Five years later, I had completed my first novel. The novel is still tucked away and in its fortieth rewrite. Someday it will see the light of day as I still love it.

The next novel took a quicker pace and 11 chapters and 80,000 words later, I opted to change the whole venue of the story and started from scratch. I still have that old work as I am a believer in always going back to former writing. You never know what you can pull out of it.

Now, in 2014, I have completed not only my first novel but most of the first trilogy. This all started as one large novel but I have learned that most first novels are not quite that long. So, I opted to split the project into three books and the first trilogy of the Hidden Heritage Series was born. I hope that in grabbing ‘Dark Hollow‘, the reader will be enticed to follow Tabitha on her journey to find her mother and meet her father.

I am looking forward to hearing what you think! There are a couple of additional novels in the Hidden Heritage series so I hope you will take the plunge with me to find out more about Tabitha’s saga.

In the meantime, I am wrapping up ‘Dark Hollow‘ and finalizing the plans for the global debut! I hope you will take a few minutes to explore the webs site. I have posted the first 10 pages of the book as well as some of the short stories I had written over the years.