Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.
A. Thank you, Susan. I’m very excited to have the opportunity to be here. I live in a little community in the Alaskan interior called Tok. We live in an off-grid home we’ve been slowly (sometimes excruciatingly) building over the last five years. Thankfully, we have expanded from the 15 ft by 40 ft space. That got a little tight with the seven of us. I

Q: How long have you been writing and what other careers or jobs have you had?
A. Though I’ve got lots of grandkids and am now a senior citizen, I’ve only been writing since 2010. Before, I worked for thirty-four years as an elementary school teacher. I taught English as a Second Language to Hispanic students in El Paso, Texas and to children with a multitude of language backgrounds in Seattle, Washington. Because I lived in the great Pacific northwest, I

Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A. I actually got my start writing historical romance many moons ago. I used to make up stories in my head to help me fall asleep, but I always dozed off before I got too far in the story. I finally decided to try my hand at writing it so I could find out what happened next! Eventually I switched to writing romantic suspense