I grew up
in Salinas, California, down the road from a chocolate factory surrounded by lettuce
fields. My dad was a mechanic who loved to race cars and my mom worked at a pet
shop. Growing up I spent a lot of time at Laguna Seca Raceway timing my dad as
he circled the track and hours playing with the animals in the pet shop, that
is when I wasn’t at my Grandparents house by the sea in Pacific Grove or at the
Steinbeck Library.
These
days I live miles up a bumpy dirt road on a secluded mountaintop in Washington
State with my husband and our three children. Our house runs on solar power. We
keep sheep, bees, and grow organic seed garlic. I still go to the library a
lot. I’m an Assistant Librarian at North Central Regional Library where I
mostly hang out in the children’s section. Yes, I am working. It just feels
like hanging out!
I like
to write. A lot. My picture book, Bedtime Monster, is published by Raven Tree
Press. I'm a bit of a creative mess. I write everything from novels to screenplays and have them hiding in places no one can read them. The
form of writing adore, and have committed myself to, is picture books. (Yes, I
like to make things hard on myself.) Chances are high that I am working on one
right now as you are reading this…
I also
love doing critiques as well assisting people and businesses with writing and
social media. I do a lot of different things, but they are all things I like.
And I am certainly never bored!
Some Things I Like:
rollerskating (if I lived where there was pavement I would rollerskate everywhere!)
raspberries
shelving books at the library
cross country skiing (I can ski right out my front door in the winter.)
towering stacks of picture books (and other types of books too!)
writers (writers are really cool!)
dark chocolate (it goes good with raspberries.)
mud (yes, I said mud.)
flowers
not washing dishes
writing (duh.)
This is the view out my kitchen window.
