about me

I have removed my MS as it is currently making the rounds of rejections through agents and publishers. I'm working, a bit depressedly, on Volume II and will upload it when finished.

If anyone needs a fabulous, quiet environment to work on their MS, check out my cabin rental. That's where I finished my first Volume.

The 5 book series Between the Dark and the Light Vigorios for Utopia has been growing in my head for 25 years. Then one day I was told, "It's time to write your book." I quit teaching and started writing and 18 months later finished the first book.

I am a parent of 4, married 33 years. For 15 years I taught middle-graders. I live in a 100-year-old Victorian house on 5 acres in the country and run a Vacation Rental business out of the log cabin on my property.

favourite books

Ray Bradbury-anything; Stephen King-anything
Dark Tower Series; Philip Pullman His Dark Materials
JRR Tolkien Hobbit, Lord of the Rings
Terry Brooks First King of Shannara & more
Llewlyn Morgan
Ursula K LeGuin Wizard of Earthsea
George Orwell Animal Farm and 1984
Pearl S Buck The Good Earth and The Big Wave
Hemmingway Old Man and the Sea
Anne McCaffrey Dragons of Pern series
The Cat Who... series; David Eddings anything
Neil Gaiman Graveyard Book (awesome)
Spiderwick Chronicles; The Black Cauldron, etc.
Tess Garretson

my websites

http://flablackbearcabin.com     http://mcleranhouse.com