Q: How long have you been writing and what other careers or jobs have you had?
A. I’ve been writing fiction since the fall of 2004. I had a variety of jobs as a kid, everything from tying grapes to bagging shavings and bird seed for a pet supply store. In my teens, I worked in the kitchen at a nursing home, and graduated to weekend baker. Through university, I marked papers, supply taught at a Montessori School, and taught
Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.
A. Thanks for having me on your blog, Susan. I live in Western New York with my four school-age children and my husband of twenty years. Before “retiring” to raise my family, I worked as an engineer in various industries.
Q: When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
A. After the birth of my oldest son, I saw an advertisement in a
Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.
A. I have always loved creativity, artwork and writing. After majoring in magazine journalism at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, I worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer. I loved the newspaper business, which inspires many of my novels, including the new thriller series, The Crittendon Files, about Trenton City Dispatch reporter Jack Crittendon and his family.
Q: When did you first realize you wanted
