Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues

She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.