Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.
A. My wife and I were both born at the cusp of the Baby Boom and, as such, tend to be more like the WWII generation than the Boomers. When we married, we were two twenty-year-old kids ready to take on the world. The Vietnam war was raging, so instead, we took on the U.S. military, where I became first an Intelligence Analyst, working closely with

Q: How long have you been writing and what other careers or jobs have you had?
A. I’m a medical technologist by profession and worked in the clinical laboratory after college. My specialty was blood banking. Once my husband and I had our first child, I became a stay-at-home mom. When our children were little, I published a few articles in magazines, but as they grew, I put my writing on hold to volunteer in their schools, at church and in

Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A: I spent ten wonderful years as a newspaper reporter, then happily became a stay-at-home mom. But while being a mom was fantastic, some part of my mind still itched for writing. I started playing around with a story—a mystery novel because that’s my favorite book to read—and soon after, a forensic geologist named Raleigh Harmon appeared.
That was twelve books ago. And I’m still