Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A. I attended a writing conference when I was trying to write a non-fiction book about the loss of my spouse. (By the way, that book—The Tender Scar: Life After The Death Of A Spouse—came to fruition and is still in print seven years later). At the conference, two of the faculty—James Scott Bell and Alton Gansky—encouraged me to try my hand at fiction.
After

Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.  
A. I always knew I could write but had to wait till I’d grown up and learned a bit about the world before I had anything to say and could settle down to learning my craft. I might have been an actress, or a teacher – but ended up as a writer. I think that’s the best career of all – for me.
Q: When did you

Q: How long have you been writing and what other careers or jobs have you had?  
A. I’ve been writing for more years than I care to count! I used to combine writing with my career as a Christian Education Director, but eventually I retired from my position in order to write full time.
Q: Do you write in only one genre and if so which one and why? If not, which ones and why?
A: I began writing with children’s stories