Married with three children, I live 45 minutes west of the Georgia coast in the country. Born in Savannah, GA and raised on the west side, I have never lived in another state and can't imagine living anywhere else, but do hope to have a cabin in the mountains and a house on the beach one day in which to write.
A writer for as long as I can remember, I was a career paralegal until two months ago when I pulled a 180 and gave it up to be a writer / reporter for my local paper, the Bryan County News. I love what I'm doing now and wish I would have done it alot sooner.
I love to write fiction and am currently working intently on a novel. I have many more in progress and notebooks full of ideas, chapters, character sketches and general notes. My dream is to one day write the great American novel, if it still exists. Who knows, perhaps I can help reinvent it.
My passion is ...
writing.
I know too much about ...
nothing.
My parents always told me ...
I would never be able to make a living being a writer.
My childhood ambition ...
was to be a writer.
My favorite memory ...
the night I met my husband.
Why I write ...
I have to. If I didn't, I would burst and the voices would drive me crazy!
What I am reading/watching/listening to ...
reading, The King of Nod, watching Jericho, House MD, Lost and NCIS.
My first job ...
was as a cashier at Piggly Wiggly, in high school.
My best moment ...
is yet to be.
My inspiration ...
is words.
"Nuts!" was the rally battle cry of Jericho fans after the popular series was cancelled. Stemming from the episode that aired before cancellation was announced, fans clung to the word and CBS and Paramount in a deluge of peanuts, trying to get their point across. The measure won 7 more episodes, only for the show to succumb once again to network hierarchy who claimed ratings were not good enough to sustain the cost of production. The ratings, however, were not the true reason for the killing of Jericho. The real reason Jericho will not be renewed or purchased for continuation is the same t...
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