I grew up loving dinosaurs, rocks, and stars.  My parents got me my first telescope when I was eight.  I never missed an episode of Star Trek.  I learned to fly at sixteen and I majored in geophysics at Texas A&M.  I was going to be an astronaut.
      
      Somehow I ended up working in the oil industry with my husband.  We traveled to Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Taiwan.  Think Goldie Hawn in a James Bond movie.  Yes, I did have a briefcase full of money. Yes, I did jump out of a moving taxi.

     With the birth of two wonderful children, I had the privilege of becoming a stay at home mom.  After the children left for college, and everyone wanted to know if I did anything beside sit on the couch and read magazines, I started tinkering with an idea for a story and The Ninth Child was born.  I entered the amazing world of writing.  It is a world that I love, and a world where, with Andrea, I finally get to fly in space.