I started writing seriously about fourteen years ago. Up until then I thought I had finally figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up: I went back to school and got a degree in Psychology. I was drawn to how our minds and emotions work. But while writing for my classes, I found myself drawn to how we relate to one another's minds and emotions.
Hey, guess what? That's what stories and novels are all about (good ones, anyway)!
I started writing short stories—pretty bad ones. And I started taking creative writing courses to round out my degree. So I was in classes full of people just like me—lousy writers. But we were learning!
Then the Lord led me to a local writers' group, Capital Christian Writers, and the contacts and friends I made through CCW enriched my personal life and my writing life more than I can measure. Through CCW and through reading just about every book and magazine ever published by Writer's Digest, I started catching on. Now I'm writing full time and man oh man do I love it.
Before
the writing began, I worked for attorneys in Washington, D. C. I worked
for the Securities and Exchange Commission. And I was a stockbroker. A
horrible stockbroker. How do people do that? Take responsibility for other
people's financial futures? Yikes. I'm perfectly happy to take responsibility
for the amount of time any one person wants to spend reading my books.
If you enjoy the experience, then know that we both enjoyed it together.
I love that about books.
In the midst of all that fretting over other people's money and writing
about other people's lives, I racked up a few personal experiences myself.
I live in Northern Virginia and have a brilliantly funny son and a savvy, gorgeous
grown daughter (who eloped at 19 and eventually blessed me with an amazing grandson).
Oh, and we have three lovable, goofy dogs and several feral cats who think they're our pets and force us to feed them.
Me
relaxing at ACFW Dallas
September 2007
With
Susan Meissner (l.) and Kim Moore (r.) at ACFW
Dallas
September 2007
With my
fellow students and Florence Littauer (2nd. in from l.) at CLASS
August 2006
With
Jerry Jenkins at his Christian Literary Guild presentation,
May 20, 2006
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Me with
the rest of the Board of Directors of Capital Christian Writers
and Editor, Melanie Rigney
September 12, 2005
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