Right now I'm working on the second book in The Burden of Trust series. I'm doing my best to have it out in the next 6 months. Readers are telling me after they finish reading The Burden of Trust: The price no one expected to pay. they can't wait 6 months for the next book. It's a pretty great feeling.

Hands down my two favorite authors are Nicholas Spark and Kristin Hannah. I can read their novels over and over again.

The greatest joy of writing is the escape from reality. When the characters take on a life of their own and touch people's live it's inspiring to keep writing more and more.

I was in elementary school and our teacher had given us an assignment to write a story for another classmate. I became enthralled in my story, almost failing the assignment because I was still writing two days later when it was due. What was only supposed to be a two page story turned into ten pages for me. That should have been my sign to be a writer, however, it took me almost twenty years to find my creative storytelling voice.

My writing process is still being developed. When I wrote The Burden of Trust, I had a single concept and allowed the characters to take over. There was no pre-determined end. Now that I'm writing the second book in The Burden of Trust series, I find myself more structured and organized with the writing. Maybe it's so I stay on the same story line and don't start talking about aliens. LOL!

I do read for pleasure, but not like everyone else does. When reading a book, I enjoy the journey the author is taking me on, but mainly I'm focusing on the writing style, the descriptive words and some of the grammar. When I write a book, I tend to pick up the writing style of what I'm reading. So if I'm writing a love story, I need to read love stories.

I love reading off my iPad curled up in bed with a cup of hot tea on the nightstand.

Organized. If it's messy I can't concentrate because all I want to do is clean it.