Hi everyone,

I want to start off by wishing all of you a very happy new year! 2012 is looking to be a fantastic year to buy books (three I can think off of the top of my head).

I just finished my latest manuscript which was delivered to my agent on New Year’s Eve. (Yes, that is what I do on New Year’s Eve – I don’t party like a rock star – I am sitting at home quietly, drinking my Diet Coke, and editing my latest manuscript)

The ending of my novel, got me to thinking about happy endings. I used to believe that if an episode in my real life didn’t have a happy ending, then it wasn’t worth it. For example, because a relationship that I tried so hard to hang on to didn’t work out and didn’t have a happy ending, it meant that the relationship and my time were wasted. Or if I never meet the son I placed for adoption and find happiness there, I experienced all of that pain and heartache for nothing.

But after writing my most recent book, the character Adrianna, taught me that life isn’t always about getting the happy ending you want or expect to have. Life gives you what you need–sometimes it’s happiness and sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes you need hardship in order to learn and grow. Sometimes you need to experience loss in order to learn a lesson. And sometimes you are privileged enough to experience happiness.

The key to the phrase “happy ending” is the word “ending.” Do I really want to reach the end? Remember that feeling you get on Christmas morning when you look around the tree and see the mounds of wrapping paper and discarded boxes and realize that every present is opened? Your heart drops just a bit when you realize that it’s all over? That’s what an ending feels like.

Happiness isn’t an ending. It’s an emotion we feel on the journey of life….it isn’t the destination or ending of a story. So while I may never meet my son, I have six wonderful children in my life who bring me exhilarating exasperation (aka happiness…I think). And while I didn’t wind up in the arms of the boy I loved at sixteen…I am happily and deeply in love with the man life always knew I was meant to be with.

So, my lesson learned this holiday season, life isn’t always about the happy ending, it’s about the journey and the things that bring us happiness along the way.

Here is to a wonderful 2012.

Much love to all.

Hello everyone,

I have fantastic news!  I just got the publication dates for “Changing Hands.” It will be published in electronic format on August 15, 2012 and will be in bookstores on December 15, 2012.

Thank you for all of your support!

Have a great day!

Hello and welcome!

This site represents the culmination of many years of hard work and the dreams of a young girl who grew up living inside of her imagination.

People often ask me how I got started in writing….I tell them that I have always been a writer. From the time I was a young girl, I can remember writing in my diary, writing poems, and writing stories. And when I wasn’t writing, I was thinking about writing.

I use writing to work through experiences and bring myself resolution even when there is no resolution to be had. Some people will use exercise or music or therapy to resolve problems, I write them out.

Every novel I write is cathartic. And through this therapeutic medium, I hope I can entertain, enlighten, and inspire. I love creating characters and introducing them to the world.

Take an opportunity to explore the different pages on this website. Please feel free to visit my publisher, kNight Romance Publishing along with my literary agent, Sullivan Maxx. Both have been incredibly supportive and encouraging to me over the past couple of years. I would not be here without them.

My first two fictional novels are due to be published next year. I have two more novels (one I just recently completed) that don’t quite have publication dates, but as soon as they do, I will post that information here (fingers crossed!).

And last but not least, I have just broken ground on my fifth novel this week. It is still in the brainstorming phase (some on paper, but mostly in my head).

I hope you are having a great fall – I can’t believe we are already heading full steam towards the holiday season!! I hope you will continue to stop by occasionally and catch up with me. I would love to hear from you…please leave me a comment.