The most difficult part of building a web page for me is the whole biography thing. It makes me wonder what the heck have I done with my life, anyway?

The basics: I was born in California, but grew up in Wyoming thanks to the US Air Force. I attended Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Why South Dakota, you ask? Because of the superior...the excellent...oh, all right! Their recruiter was cute. 

I graduated Augie (the mascot was actually called the Augie Doggie) with a B.A. in Music Education. I taught strings, vocal music (and drama, and speech/debate, and library) for a year in a little place I like to call Purgatory and decided to move on. But not before marrying the only other single teacher in town.  

Fast forward a few years  - okay, more than a few - and we have three kids. All boys. Yes, my life is crazy. But hey, a little craziness can serve you well. Especially if you write fiction. 

I started writing as a kid, and wrote my first novel at age 13 when I got my first crush on Mr. Scott. Yep - that Mr. Scott. But the resulting story was really, really bad. Thankfully I've learned a few things since then, and have gone on to write nonfiction, essays, sci fi, mystery, and even children's stories. But whatever I write, I feel best when I'm making people laugh.

So here I am, always working on something new. My debut novel, Let's Dish, has recently been released in trade paperback. Another Time Around, my sophomore effort, is currently in e-book available at Samhain Publishing, with the trade paper due out July 2010.