Hello!

Just a hello post, to tell you a little bit about me.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. Most of them are short, and seldom sweet, but I've written articles for newspapers, short stories for multiple published anthologies, short novellas for themed series, poetry, and for a short, profitable time, pornographic flash fiction for an Australian skin mag. I love to write. I make no promises to be the best out there, but I enjoy it, and I hope that my readers share in the experience. I've written for decades at this point- from my very first published pieces to now has been a very long, twisted journey which has involved marriage, divorce, children and remarriage and more children, with a sideswipe through modeling and the BDSM world. I grew up with and still love horses, so they make an appearance here and there in some of my work. I'm a fan of dark fantasy, horror and the early work of Poppy Z. Brite, so you'll sometimes catch that darker edge underneath my work.

Now this is the part I'm almost ashamed to admit- I believe in love. Not necessarily the hearts and flowers type of love where everything smells of roses and ends up fading into a shimmering sunset, but the real thing- dirty, messy, complicated and sometimes painful.

My first independently published anthology, Fearless, was my experiment in writing about love in all its varied forms. Much of it is dark and painful, some of it is uplifting and hope-filled. All of it is real, in the sense that these are the emotions I have lived through over the past fifteen years as I grew up, changed and learned a lot about life. Certain pieces in Fearless can be pinpointed to certain periods- the loss of a friend and the pain we all suffered with her, the ending of my first marriage, the exploration of being alone for the first time and having to figure things out without having a road map.

In contrast, the novel that I have scheduled to come out in January, American Baby, is an entirely different story. American Baby started out as an experiment in romance with a happily ever after ending- and I have to say that I am very pleased with the result. I hope that you will come back and look for excerpts from American Baby and other upcoming short stories, novellas and novels from me. If I'm being honest, I'm hoping YOU will keep me honest, by reading, commenting, reviewing and reminding me that at the end of the day, I write as much for the readers as I do for my soul.

Please come with me and share this exciting new journey!

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