About Me
When someone asks who I am or what I do, I say, “I’m a writer.” I have loved making up stories since I was old enough to grip a crayon in my fat little fist. When my mother told me that some peopl
e were paid to write stories, it sounded too good to be true.
Today I write all kinds of things—and edit books too—but that’s not what this site is about. This is my home as fiction writer, inventor of tall tales. Holed up in my little writing room, I can make dragons fly and trees speak. I can give an eleven-year-old girl the power of ages. Nothing could be more fun than that.
When I’m not shut away with my imaginary friends, I live an ordinary life in a suburb of Kansas City (the free state side) with my husband, teenage daughter, and incorrigible beagle mutt. I love traveling and I love coming home. Some of my favorite places to go include New York City, Paris, Florence, and of course the United Kingdom.
