about me

I am a wife, mother and an attorney-mediator by trade, as well as a fiction editor for Conclave: A Journal of Character.

In addition to my authonomy submission, Steinbeck, The Scoot, and the Pull of Gravity, which is my first foray into young adult fiction, I have written two novels, both women's fiction.

My first, The Jetty, was a Top Semifinalist in the 2007-08 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. My second one, My Life, Out of Order is entered in the 2009 ABNA now beginning.

I am newly represented by a reputable NYC literary agency and have a wonderful agent.

favourite books

History of Love, Nicole Krauss; Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd; Extremely Loud... Jonathan Safran Foer; Netherland, Joseph O'Neill; Liberation of Gabriel King (juvenile fiction), K.L. Going, and most anything by William Goldman (Boys and Girls Together, The Color of Light), to name a few...

my websites

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/ARSH7M6O8TY1P