WELCOME TO MY WORLD

It would be around this age that I became fascinated with seeing my writing on paper.  I often pretended to write cursive, just like my mother did. 

Over the years, wanting to see my writing has not changed. With dozens of diaries, journals, and hundreds of scraps of scribbled thoughts on paper, I eventually evolved to having my thoughts published. My first printed work was while I was overseas in my early twenties. I was traveling under the guise of getting my portfolio in photography, when I found myself writing articles for a small local paper in New Plymouth, New Zealand, to wet my palate in the meantime.  

Soon after returning from my travels, I would find another detour to start a family instead.  However, I kept documenting my life like any other adventure, never putting down my pen or camera. Living in the trenches of stay-at-home motherhood in 2011, I found another creative outlet. Image transfers on salvaged wood, and I happened to be at the forefront of this trend.  I taught workshops and continued to have my art, writing, photography, and eventually photo styling skills in dozens of art and home decor magazines.  I am a self-proclaimed Jill of All Trades, No Jack About It.

People often say, “I’ve always wanted to write a book.” I, too, have said such things.  However, the book I thought I would write a non-fiction travel adventure guide. I never imagined it would be a Young Adult Urban Fantasy.  Yet by happenstance, the perfect storm of an empty nest, a worldwide pandemic, and a surge of female fantasy writers I had grown addicted to reading was all it took for a Spark within me to be ignited.

This is just the beginning.