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I grew up in a small town in Southwest Florida in the days before air conditioning. I remember sweltering nights when we had to close the windows to keep the skeeters and sandflies out. My childhood summers were spent outside because in those days kids were neither seen nor heard from except at mealtimes. My friends and I especially enjoyed playing on the burial vaults stored in the yard of the funeral home next door. On rainy days we played on my grandmother's screened porch. I wrote porch plays and we all performed them--not well, but with a lot of enthusiasm. My early scribblings gave way to more polished work and eventually I had a number of short stories and essays published in magazines. I now write novels, mostly mysteries. I am also an avid reader. I will read anything, from cereal boxes to billboards, but I much prefer mystery novels. I love books involving horses and amateur sleuths and I also like to read true crime and I'm developing a weakness for chick lit.
But I started out with children's stories and still love them. My children's chapter book, Night Camp, was published in 2009.

I grew up in a small town in Southwest Florida in the days before air conditioning. I remember sweltering nights when we had to close the windows to keep the skeeters and sandflies out. My childhood summers were spent outside because in those days kids were neither seen nor heard from except at mealtimes. My friends and I especially enjoyed playing on the burial vaults stored in the yard of the ... More