I’ve been reading and writing since I was very young, and I’ve always enjoyed creating new worlds and stories in which someone who considers his/her life bland and boring suddenly finds everything he/she’s always known turned on its ear. In other words, fantasy that starts, and often takes place completely, in the “real world.” That’s the type of story I enjoy reading, as well.
I wrote my first story when I was five, and completed my first book-length manuscript when I was 12. Through junior high, high school, and college, I wrote about 19 more book-length stories, all longhand. Well, I didn’t have a computer back then… I put writing aside for several years after I married and had my daughters, but then got back into it about five years ago, and since then have completed the first drafts of 44 young adult manuscripts, 30 of which are part of a series, and another ten of which make up another series. My characters don’t like to leave me alone.
Until recently, all those manuscripts just gathered dust on a shelf in my study; I didn’t try to find a publisher for them. But now I’m working toward publication, and recently received my first acceptance from Kitty Horse Publishing, a new company launching in January 2010.
I’m a former special education teacher who still dabbles in teaching occasionally, and I’ve recently relocated from Maine to Massachusetts with my two daughters, ages 14 and 11, and a pair of cats.
