About me
I’ve been writing since I first discovered I could. My first attempt was a self-published riff on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland when I was about eight or nine.
I started out writing short stories and bad poetry as many do and had just enough published to keep me motivated and give me a bit of confidence. It seemed easy to turn to non-fiction so I began writing short pieces on everything from women's health to humour to travel, again with a modicum of success. There were a few years of freelance work but life and reality (read money) got in the way and my writing was more off than on. A move to a small community led to newspaper work where for the first time I got paid to write day in, day out. Stressful, but exciting, I found my passion fulfilled in journalism and was saddened beyond words when it ended with the closure of the small weekly newspapers I had been with. I am proud of the work I did, telling the stories of the community, and will be forever grateful to learn the discipline of daily writing and the opportunity to improve and hone my craft.
Freelance work for tourism publications and other small projects have been ongoing while I dedicated myself to my first novel, My Beautiful Mistake, a historical fiction with a psychological twist. After many years of research, writing, rewriting, editing, rewriting, editing, (again), I've begun the humbling process of sending it out into the world in the hopes of having it published. Fingers crossed!
I started out writing short stories and bad poetry as many do and had just enough published to keep me motivated and give me a bit of confidence. It seemed easy to turn to non-fiction so I began writing short pieces on everything from women's health to humour to travel, again with a modicum of success. There were a few years of freelance work but life and reality (read money) got in the way and my writing was more off than on. A move to a small community led to newspaper work where for the first time I got paid to write day in, day out. Stressful, but exciting, I found my passion fulfilled in journalism and was saddened beyond words when it ended with the closure of the small weekly newspapers I had been with. I am proud of the work I did, telling the stories of the community, and will be forever grateful to learn the discipline of daily writing and the opportunity to improve and hone my craft.
Freelance work for tourism publications and other small projects have been ongoing while I dedicated myself to my first novel, My Beautiful Mistake, a historical fiction with a psychological twist. After many years of research, writing, rewriting, editing, rewriting, editing, (again), I've begun the humbling process of sending it out into the world in the hopes of having it published. Fingers crossed!
