I began writing and publishing as a reporter then editor of my high school newspaper The Static. Ten years later I committed to writing columns and features professionally for weekly magazines then daily newspapers in Alberta,Canada - Colorado, USA and New York. In 2006 I took another writing leap leaving journalism for full-time fiction: MG/YA mystery and adult suspense-thrillers.

I've been so fortunate to have lived, traveled or worked in many European and Mediterranean countries. I have dual Canadian/US citizenship and call all of North America 'home'. My husband and I blended a family of five offspring in 1990. Those 'adventures' first featured in the Denver Post became material for my first non-fiction book [Blended Not Shaken-2003] the 2nd edition "ANOTHER-BLENDED NOT SHAKEN" was published in 2015.

To date I have 17 titles in print and eFormat - of which my adult fiction mystery "FINE POINTS MALICE AND PAYBACK" was selected by the Independent Press Award Committee for a 2019 Distinguished Favorites Award in April then in June my Middle Grade fiction THE CROW CHILD was a Purple Dragon Book Award Winner via Story Monsters Ink. In 2020 another of my mystery suspense thrillers THE COUNT OF BALDPATE was chosen for a Distinguished Favorite Award - thrilled and honored. My sequel to "Dream Gate...Grabbing Air" is out and available - DREAM GATE II...GRABBING TIME.