FAQ/LINKS/Partnership

1. How did your writing career begin?
Writers are readers. Obsessive readers. The written word offers adventure, encouragement, mystery, romance, humor, and knowledge. It is cathartic and therapeutic, enriching and invigorating.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow summed up the essence of an obsessed reader: “The Love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.” I officially entered the publishing business in 2003, but I’ve always been a writer. I’ve known it from the moment I learned how to read. Ever since that first day of kindergarten when I stomped home and accosted my poor mother with the words: "There's a lot of stuff I don't know yet. . . .What are you waiting for? Start talking and tell me everything there is to know! Hurry!"

As I said, we're a bit obsessive. I wrote my first book, Timmy - the Very Bad Bunny Angel, when I was in first grade, complete with an about the author page at the end. I had inhaled every Nance Drew, Hardy Boys, and Boxcar Children books I could find and felt ready, at the mature age of seven, to join such greats as Gertrude Chandler Warner, Franklin W. Dixon, Carolyn Keene, and Alfred Hitchcock. Although my manuscript was never finished (the artwork really slowed me down), I experienced a rush in seeing my name on the cover of a book. With Timmy the bunny, no less.

And although my writing has waxed and waned over the years, my love of learning and of reading never has. As a mother of three young children, I’ve found myself reading (and re-reading, and re-reading) favorite bedtime stories; together we’ve raced through the Chronicles of Narnia, The Happy Hollisters, and J.R.R. Tolkein. Sadly, my young readers also prefer the works of Dav Pilkey, author of Captain Underpants. So much for Longfellow’s serenity.