I’ve been telling myself stories since I was a kid who couldn’t sleep.
My parents gave me advice that changed my life: when you can’t sleep, tell yourself happy stories. So I did. I wove myself into my favorite books and dreamed up wild adventures of my own, and somewhere in all those restless nights, I fell in love with storytelling.
Books were my first love. I wanted to be a teacher or a scientist when I grew up, but I spent every spare hour at the library. (Turns out curiosity comes in handy when you write mysteries.)
For years, I started more stories than I finished. I still have every one of those notes, by the way. Then, in October 2016, I finally finished my first book, Mandy’s Story.
Today I write cozy mysteries full of small-town charm, women’s fiction with plenty of heart, and ghost stories for when you want to sleep with the lights on. I write with a cup of tea nearby and a ridiculous number of pets supervising.
When I’m not writing, I’m usually brewing tea, spoiling animals, or sneaking the color pink into places it wasn’t invited.
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