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As a child, I loved making up stories about fairies, pirates, and times past in exotic lands, and I loved telling them to my dolls and stuffed animals.

As an adult, my interest in ancient history, metaphysics, and more recently quantum physics, has inspired me to write stories weaving these topics into the plots.

But, I haven’t always been a writer, and my background is very diverse. I hold a business degree as well as a certification in Interior Design. I’ve worked for private practices and for Corporate America for 48 years. My experience includes: architectural, mechanical and electro-mechanical drafting where I worked for architects, tool designers, and the burgeoning electronics industry. (I even have a story brewing of my experience as a young woman in the Bay Area—before it became known as Silicon Valley, and of the prejudice I experienced working in a predominantly male profession.)

I ended my technical career as a CAD-drafting manager for one of the country’s fortune 500 companies, and in 1987 joined my husband in our security design and engineering firm, writing proposals, specifications, and technical reports as well as editing those produced by our employees.

My hobbies include: traveling, reading, painting, and sewing—on many occasions, designing my own clothes—which lead to a design and US patent for a utilitarian drop-seat jumpsuit, and of course, writing.

I taught drafting to interior design students for UCSC’s Extension Program and have a prosperous Interior Design business, specializing in redesign (using the client’s existing furnishings and accessories to create fabulous spaces).

I didn’t actually start writing until 1998, when I first discovered I was to be a grandmother. The news inspired me so, that I went to my home computer and began composing a story for my grandson—and I have been writing ever since.

My first published book, The Mariner’s Secret, is about two siblings, Matt & Heather, orphaned in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. They are sent to live with their Great Aunt Estelle in San Francisco, and on Matt’s 13th birthday, just when he thinks he will go mad with boredom, he discovers a secret in the house, and the thrills begin. Everyone who read it liked it so well, saying it reminded them of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew stories all rolled into one, and asked if I had another in the works—so, I decided I’d write a series of Matt & Heather thrillers.

The second in the series is, Danger in the Jeweled City, and this time the action takes place at the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition, in San Francisco (the Palace of Fine Arts is the only remaining structure on site left from that, ‘last of great world’s fairs’). The children discover an international conspiracy and devise a way to save the country.

I’m currently working on my fifth book, Shaken, which will be the third book in the Matt & Heather thrillers. This time Solar Flares, earth quakes and other strange goings on add to the dire circumstances the two siblings find themselves in.

My husband, Paul, and I get so involved with the characters, that they’ve become a part of our lives and are frequently the subjects of dinner-time conversations.

As a child, I loved making up stories about fairies, pirates, and times past in exotic lands, and I loved telling them to my dolls and stuffed animals. As an adult, my interest in ancient history, metaphysics, and more recently quantum physics, has inspired me to write stories weaving these topics into the plots. But, I haven’t always been a writer, and my background is very diverse. I hold ... More