I’m the author of the beloved bestselling paranormal historical Loving Husband Trilogy. My sweet Victorian romance, When It Rained at Hembry Castle, was named a best historical novel by IndieReader.
My other books include Christmas at Hembry Castle; Victory Garden, a novel of the American Women’s Suffrage Movement; That You Are Here, a sweet contemporary romance; The Window Dresser and Other Stories, a short story collection; Woman of Stones, a novella of Biblical Jerusalem; and The Duchess of Idaho, a time-travel love story set on the Oregon Trail.
Down Salem Way, the prequel to the Loving Husband Trilogy set during the Salem Witch Trials, is the winner of the B.R.A.G. Medallion and a semi-finalist for the 2022 Chaucer Award in Early Historical Fiction. My first nonfiction book, Painting the Past: A Guide For Writing Historical Fiction, was a #1 New Release on Amazon in Authorship and Creativity Self-Help.
My latest release is my second nonfiction book, The Swirl and Swing of Words: Embracing the Writing Life, which has been named a #1 New Release on Amazon in Authorship, Creativity Self-Help, and Authorship Reference. I’m currently working on my next novel, a Dark Academia mystery entitled The Professor of Eventide.
My fiction and nonfiction have appeared in journals such as Moondance, Muse Apprentice Guild, The Paumanok Review, Wild Mind, The Maxwell Digest, Writers Weekly, ViewsHound, The Honor Society, The Huffington Post, Introvert, Dear, and Anne R. Allen’s blog.
For 23 years, I was the executive editor of The Copperfield Review, an award-winning literary journal for readers and writers of historical fiction. I’ve been a guest speaker at The History Quill’s Conference for Writers of Historical Fiction and Rachel Thompson’s Lit Mag Love course.
I received my B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from CSU Northridge and my Ph.D. in Education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I’ve taught writing to students ages five to 75, and I’ve taught education, creative writing, and writing historical fiction courses at Learning Tree University, UNLV, the UNLV Continuing Education Extension Program, the Henderson Writers Group, and the Las Vegas Writers Conference.
I read everything from historical fiction to literary fiction and from the classics to nonfiction. I love baking and painting, and I’m a Los Angeles Dodgers fan as well as a frequenter of coffee shops. Then I practice yoga to counteract all that coffee. I live in the hills of Southern Nevada.
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