Just Charm Publishing

I went back to school after my only child was school age and he decided I was no longer his best friend. I had always wanted to be a teacher, so I took classes at my local community college and began pursuing a career in child development. One semester, my speech class instructor encouraged me to enter a writing contest about Martin Luther King. My speech won second place, although I know my “writing” was actually better than the guy that took first place. I didn’t care because I realized that this was a “speech” contest and he had a much better delivery than I did. I smiled and happily accepted the $100 and 2nd place certificate. It was then that I knew I wanted to be a serious writer.

Like most writers, I find inspiration in everything I see and hear. I love to people watch, animal watch, nature watch, and simply observe life in general. But I especially love it when a subject just speaks to me. That’s how is was with the subject matter of my new book. There are a lot of elements to it; adultery, murder, secret experiments, but the whole thing centers on MERMAIDS; something I've always been fascinated by.

“Experimenting With Murder” came into existence as a result of an idea I’ve had for years. It wasn’t until I saw the airing of the television program "Mermaids: The New Evidence" that I decided to finally start working on this project. I was impressed how The Animal Planet channel took a "docufiction" and injected a little bit of fact with fantasy. I decided to do the same thing with my book. In it, I reference an actual event that occurred several years ago in New Zealand’s Farewell Spit. Unfortunately, the massive whale beachings that I mention in this story are still occurring (as recent as January 2014). While the plight of so many whales is a sad thing, I think I've made a wise choice in subject matter for a book.