I am Yankee born and Southern raised. Born in New Jersey, grew up in Louisiana, lived in Texas, Germany, New York City and now Georgia. Ever since I got my first byline in junior high, I’ve been a writer, mostly freelance. I’ve written advertising copy for septic tanks, the libretto for an opera, lyrics for Sesame Street and worked as an editor for Time-Life Books and a national storytelling magazine. At one point, I was full time-free lance writing the book and lyrics for children’s musicals. One of them, It’s Cool in the Furnace. According to the publisher, it is the longest selling children’s’ musical in sacred music history. My first novel, Shorter’s Way, is a political love story about rambunctious Georgia politics in the 1920s. My second novel, Waterproof Justice, is a misadventure about 1940s madams, Mafia, mischief and mayhem in Louisiana. Currently I am fixin’ to commence to get ready to start to think about my next book. Stay tuned.