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 

STAGE 1: writing 

She wants the colonel for his money. He wants him for his sister. Only one will win. 

Allegra Lovage was carefully trained to be a social climber. As a ballerina, she was in the perfect position to achieve Mother's goals. Until, at sixteen, she fell in love with a stagehand. It's been six years. Six years of suffering. Six years of death, both her husband's and her infant child's, and six years of hard labor. Broken and numb, Allegra decides to finally follow Mother's good advice and marry for money. She returns to the stage and picks a target. Colonel Cooper. He's respectable, kind, good-looking, and bland enough there will be no worries about falling in love.

The Honorable Baron Burnham feels the weight of the world on his shoulders. After his father's death, he is now in charge of running the estate and caring for his three precocious sisters. The solution to his troubles is obvious. He must marry off his oldest sister, and fast, before she organizes another lady's football tournament. His old friend Colonel Cooper will do nicely. He is just the sort of steady influence his sister needs. That is, if he can get the pesky ballerina out of the way. 

Sparks fly as the baron and the ballerina fight for Colonel Cooper's attention, but none of the heat seems to be coming from the colonel. 

The Baron's Glasshouse will be the first in a trilogy surrounding the Burnham family's love stories. If you can't wait to read this book, subscribe to my newsletter and be the first to hear about the release date. 

 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.