About me.

Whew! Where to start? Fiction is easy, but talking about myself? Not so much.

I was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. I grew up in the Iron City/Saint Joseph area. There really weren’t any other kids in my neighborhood, and I certainly didn’t want to spend any more time with my two younger sisters than I had to. I was excited to learn to read, and always loved reading. I attended school at South Lawrence Elementary, and the librarians there encouraged my reading. They would often see that I had already completed the available books at my grade level and would let me read books for the older children as well. I remember one time I checked out a book of Irish ghost tales. I don’t remember how old I was, but I was pretty young. Too young to be reading that book, that’s for certain. My parents were furious the next day. They didn’t know that I had read the book until I woke them in the middle of the night, screaming because I thought the banshee was going to get me.

As a teenager, I began considering options for a career. Writing never crossed my mind. I was determined to be a nurse, and my mind was made up. I went to work during the summer as a nurse assistant at a local nursing home. It helped solidify my decision, and I thought I had my career all planned out. It wasn’t. I took a first responder course in high school, and decided that emergency medicine was what I wanted to do. I attended the EMT