Northern Virginia Magazine and Me

I’m not sure which is more exciting – the fact that the January issue of Northern Virginia Magazine features the best local coffee shops (my poison of choice!) or that it features my urban fantasy novel, Caged! Okay, okay, I am a little more excited that they listed Caged in their bookshelf of local authors […]

Christmas Stories

Christmas is a very emotional time for me. I get choked up easily thinking about love and peace and goodwill and all that crap.  Christmas brings out my sensitive side. Maybe it’s because of all the wonderful stories there are about the season. I’d like to suggest a few worth reading. The Little Match Girl, […]

Christmas Viewing

I love Christmas. I love the smell of pine trees and fresh baked cookies. I love giving and getting presents. I love traveling to a million places to see family and friends. (Okay – maybe not the traveling so much) Most of all, I love sitting on my couch, snuggled up with a cup of […]

Caged Interview

I had the privilege of being interviewed by storyteller, and fellow storytelling teacher with Better Said Than Done, Mary Supley Foxworth. You can read her interview with me here. It’s fun getting to talk about myself. It’s even more fun not having to come up with what to talk about by myself! Mary asked me […]

Thanksgiving

On this Thanksgiving Day, I thought it would be a nice way to once again give thanks by sharing the acknowledgments section of my book. Here it is. Happy Thanksgiving. Dedication: For my family – Of blood and water Acknowledgments: It takes a village to raise a book.  There are really too many people to […]

Prescribed Halloween Viewing

Full disclosure, my urban fantasy novel, Caged, and the trilogy it kicks off, The V to Z Trilogy, include both vampires and zombies. It’s not a world filled with the supernatural, just vampires and zombies. So I thought, why not have a V to Z themed movie night? Or a Halloween movie night with Vampires […]

First Book Signing Event

This past weekend I had my very first book signing event for my brand spanking new urban fantasy novel, Caged. The author event was at my Better Said Than Done old standby pub, The Auld Shebeen, in Fairfax, VA. Approximately 50 people came, heard a fabulous speech by me, bought some books with my soon […]

Caged is Here

My first novel, Caged, an urban fantasy set in modern day Northern Virginia, is finally published and available for purchase. Like X-Files meets Die Hard. A scientist and the federal agent who is hoping to keep her alive are trapped in a building with a horde of hungry vampires. It wouldn’t be that unusual of […]