ABOUT ME

Like most writers, I have worn many hats in my life: ballerina, teacher, analyst, mother, lover of pugs, pie maker. But whether I was sitting at a computer or holding a rolling pin in my hands, the hat of a writer never left my head. The spin of a word into a story is a passion that began in childhood, inspired by long summer days spent on Lake Champlain sitting in rowboats reading Frank L. Baum, and snowy winter nights in a New York brownstone reading Dickens by the fire. But it wasn't until my ten year old son became ill I began to write those stories down. To ease his fears (and mine) I would tell him stories at night. "Talking stories" we called them, told at bedtime in moonlight and making their way to my laptop in the light of day and usually with a pug by my side. The illustrated picture book Zoo Flu is an example of one of those stories.

I am an active member of Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and the ScreenWriter's Guild of America.