My working background at a real job has spanned from Data Processing days of keypunch machines to an IT Programmer position working on a laptop that contains the same information an entire building used to house.

I tried my hand at writing greeting cards and found out I didn't have a new joke line or sincere sentiment in my head at the time. I was looking for a new adventure and reading a book that was awful. I decided if that book got published I could write a better book. I started writing a contemporary love story with a yellow pad and pen, then progressed to an IBM  Selectric Typewriter with no correction tape (remember I can't type)  and fourteen years later it still wasn't finished. I threw it in a drawer until I was taking my Creative Writing classes at Metropolitan University. In my class I  met a gal that had just returned from the Romance Writers of America, National Conference in San Francisco (back around the mid-nineties), causing me to resurrect my manuscript from the depths of my desk drawer. 

She suggested I had to find out how to really write a novel. So I joined Romance Writers of America and Midwest Fiction Writers a regional chapter of RWA ©, I’ve been a member since 1997. I finally finished a Mystery Suspense (with a Romantic element) manuscript.  This is the book I got my RWA ©Pro Pin for after I submitted it to Harlequin. 

I received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Metropolitan State University, Minnesota with a major in Business and a minor in Creative Writing.