I learned to be a writer because my parents were great story-tellers. Long car rides were filled with magical frogs, crafty minnows who loved peanut butter sandwiches and dragons who ate chocolate and read romantic fiction. How could I not write?
After undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I lived in the Virgin Islands where I had a television show (Pots and Patter on Channel 10) and taught SCUBA diving. I lived in Miami and eventually I ended up living in New York where I bought my pink Selectric typewriter and began to write.
The Coral Kill was first. I was very lucky to find my amazing literary agent, Jean Naggar, who continues to represent me now. I then wrote Making It, Ambition, Behind the Badge, Dr. Beautiful (as Christina Blake), then collaborated with Barbara Atlee on Sacred Trusts and Butterfly Avengers. After that came Eve's Rib and then graduate school to become a Psychologist. Those studies and my practice led to Emotional Unavailability which was published in hardcover, hardcover reprint, soft cover, Polish, Czech and Taiwanese Chinese.
I'm currently still working as a Psychologist with a practice in Apple Valley, MN, and continue to write, working on a sequel to The Coral Kill and a non-fiction work about managing difficult people.
I'm very happily married for many years to Rod Collins. We have three dachshunds, much like living in a house full of cartoon characters. We love to travel, go to Mets baseball games, NASCAR races, Spyro Gyra concerts and interesting places. Life is good.