Once upon a time…

…there was a little girl who decided she wanted to write books when she grew up. So she wrote her first short story in Freshman English class while ignoring the teacher. It was about a princess and a handsome prince who went to the ends of the earth to rescue his love from the clutches of the evil Duke.

It never made it out of her sight.

Then one day, she wrote her first novel. By hand. On notebook paper. Front and back. Two hundred and fifty pages. It was a science fiction story about a girl who was sucked through her mirror into a strange world. She met two men there, both of whom she felt she could fall in love with. There was an evil dark lord bent on destroying the world and her two men had to ride to the rescue and save the universe.

I don’t know what happened to that book…

The girl, of course, is me. I dabbled in fiction writing all through high school. My then-best-friend and I wrote and illustrated our own Indiana Jones adventure comic books (starring us, of course!). I stopped writing when I graduated and went on with the rest of my life. But I never really lost the itch to put words down on paper.

About five years ago, I got serious about writing again. I was on maternity leave and wrote a short story that eventually led to my first 90,000 word fantasy novel. That’s now in the back of a drawer somewhere, getting covered in dust and cobwebs and waiting for a rejection letter from Harlequin.

I guess you could say I got my first “big” break writing serials a couple of years ago for a now defunct site. I wrote two – a romance and an action/adventure. The latter will be appearing in e-book form at the end of November and in print in February (tentative dates). I feel very fortunate I was able to make it from serial writer to novel writer and I’m ecstatic that my all-time favorite characters – Skye Ransom and Dane Fortune – are going to be in print. I’m actually going to be able to hold their book in my hand and sniff the pages.

It’s delicious, really.

I’m also happy my little phone sex operator novella has made it into publication. I would have never submitted it if it hadn’t been for fellow chica, Amie, urging me to do so. (Shameless plug – you can still get Talk Dirty To Me from Samhain Publishing by clicking here.) Currently, the second in the Coffee House Chronicles is nearing completion. I hope to have Nice Girls Do done in the next few weeks.

And I’ve just sold the second and final book in The Adventures of Ransom & Fortune! I’ll be signing the contract and sending it out sometime this week.

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