About Me
a little about me and A Lot More About Why I Write
I’ve lived in Calgary for nearly sixty years and still love it. My family is scattered throughout Alberta and the western United States, which has given me countless road trips across the prairies, mountains, and deserts that continue to inspire my imagination.
Long before I became a writer, I was a reader. The Hardy Boys started it all, followed by Madeleine L’Engle and the classic science fiction adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert Heinlein. What I loved most about those stories was not just the science or technology, but the feeling that extraordinary things could happen to ordinary people. That same idea became the heart of my own writing.
The original premise for my series began as a running joke with my family about being from an all-female planet that only visited Earth to procreate. Considering I have four daughters, and my first grandchildren were girls as well, the story somehow took on a life of its own.
What started as one manuscript eventually expanded into an entire series. My first reader kept asking questions about the characters’ pasts, and before long I found myself writing not only the story itself, but everything that happened before it. The deeper I went, the more real the characters became to me.
For years I believed the series would end with Book 6, The Crystal Way. I even published it on Valentine’s Day and dedicated it to my late husband, convinced I had finally tied up all the loose ends.
“Hold my Ambrosia,” the Muse said with a laugh. She had other plans.
Less than a day later, while riding a bus through rural Alberta in winter, three unexpected paragraphs arrived in my head so clearly that I wrote them down immediately. Those paragraphs became the opening of Book 7 and launched an entirely new chapter of the series.
Since then, the world of Crystals of the Ancients has continued to grow in ways I never expected — including a prequel, an anthology, and an epilogue that insisted on becoming far more emotional than I originally intended.
Writing these books has become one of the great adventures of my life. The characters still surprise me, the stories still pull at my heart, and the Muse still refuses to let me rest for very long.
The good news for readers is that all twelve books in the series are already available on Amazon in both paperback and ebook formats.
And as Caleb would say:
It is good.
I'm hooked on writing, and hooked on the storyline.