About Me

 Mandatory Stats: Bachelor's degree in Communications, loves to read and write (4 books and counting), wife, mother, experience in journalism and freelance writing, bla bla bla. 

Now for the FUN stuff: 

 In high school, I won first place at the state science fair by drugging spiders (all legal). 

 I have a three-octave range and sang in Notre Dame while touring Europe with the Utah Ambassadors of Music.  

 As a kid I was nicknamed "the absent-minded professor" because, despite doing well in school, I always misplaced things, lost track of time, and had a messy desk. 

Writing Credits: 

First place in LDSPMA emerging author contest (Historical Fiction Category)

Grand Prize B.O.B award (ANWA writing conference)

THE BARON'S GLASSHOUSE

Regency Romance

Clean and Wholesome/Sweet  

ALLEGRA wants the colonel for his money. BEN wants the colonel for his sister. Only one can have him. 

Young ballerina, ALLEGRA LOVAGE is determined to protect her daughter from a life of impoverishment by marrying rich, and she knows the perfect candidate. Colonel Cooper is handsome, wealthy, and boasts an impeccable reputation. Allegra is confident she can catch his eye thanks to her new leading role at the ballet.

Still reeling from his father’s death, BARON BENJAMIN BURNHAM is responsible for finding his younger sister a perfect match. Luckily, his childhood friend, Colonel Cooper, is independently wealthy and unfailingly patient, which is exactly what Ben wants for his fiercely independent sister. It's the perfect plan—until Ben learns that a wily ballerina is after the colonel.

Lord Burnham sets out to save his friend from the ballerina’s clutches and redirect him to his sister. But rescuing his friend has unintended consequences when sparks fly between the ballerina and the baron.

 ONE SMALL STEP FOR BEVERLY ANNE RYAN

64,000 word MG historical fiction

It’s 1968 and eleven-year-old Beverly Anne Ryan is desperate to prove herself a genius. Inspired by the space race, Bev knows that science and math provide the only future that could make her happy and, as everyone knows, it’ll take a genius to handle a career as a scientist.

Unfortunately, she loses the science fair, she fails math (geniuses have to do homework?), and then the junior high math teacher refuses to let her, or any girls, into his advanced class. 

Bev’s repeated failures leave her wondering if the stars really are in reach. Maybe she isn’t a genius. Maybe she’s just an ordinary girl who spends her nights gazing at the moon. 

Watching the space race better change Bev’s mind about what ordinary girls can do before she loses hope, surrenders to the evil math teacher, and gives up on her dreams. 

Inspired by my mother, who conquered the evil math teacher, won the science fair, and became the first woman to graduate with a bachelor's degree in physics from the local university.