I was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, and graduated from Texas Christian University. Think I was an English or Journalism student? Think again. I have a BS in Political Science with a minor in Math. Go figure.
While at TCU, I met my husband, Mark. When our relationship seemed to be going nowhere (his jobs, too) he joined the US Air Force. As is often the case, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Eighteen months later, we were engaged and eleven months after that, married.
The spring we were engaged, I was accepted as a character at Scarborough Faire Renaissance Festival down in Waxahachie, TX (just south of D/FW). Some time after that, I started coming across crystals in recognizable shapes--heart, snowflake, water drop and so forth. That's when my book started to take shape. All the shapes represented in the book are crystals I actually own. I wear the heart crystal, myself.
The Air Force took us to Loring AFB, ME, Officer Training School in San Antonio, TX, England AFB, LA, Dover AFB, DE (where our daughter Emily was born), Texas (a recruiting squadron in Arlington), Ramstein AB in Germany and Randolph and Lackland AFBs in San Antonio where Mark completed his 20 years.
While in Dover, I completed the original draft of The Master and the Fighter. Since then, I've been in one critique group after another--even being critiqued at 4am German time more than once! I can't thank all my critique partners enough. This book wouldn't be what it is today without them!
Now that Mark is retired from the Air Force, we are back in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and living in our own home--first one we've bought.
Mark now has another job, and I am looking forward to my first earnings check from LSP Digital. Look for The Master and the Fighter in 2009.
I never liked writing papers in school but I was always good at it. I'd never dreamed I'd write a six hundred page Epic Fantasy! (Clarification: My book in manuscript form was 633 pages. The book--a trade paperback-- is 333.)
The Master and the Fighter is the product of over twenty years of work. It is the first book of a dyad (a two-book story) with a sequel in the works.