Delta Storm is Back! In another breathtaking, heart-stopping adventure through the Costa Rican Rain Forest, Delta, Connie and Megan face their toughest challenges as they overcome impossible odds and stop General Zahn. This isn't River Valley!
I just published my twelfth novel titled When an Echo returns. My publisher is Bella/Spinster Books, who also publish my time travel series, Across Time.
I have been writing for 20 years. I wrote 4 horrid novels when I was younger...until someone asked me why I didn't write cop stories, since I had been one way back in the dark ages. I fought that urge, not being a mystery reader at the time and because police work was not a match for me. Instead, I took my Masters in English to education and I have been a teacher for the majority of my life. I prefer to touch young lives rather than arrest them. Nonetheless, one day, Delta Stevens sprang into my head, as well as my heart, and so I wrote. And wrote. And the next thing I knew...there she was, and there a publisher was, and there was the beginning of my writing career and my love of the irascible Delta Stevens. Like a love affair that sneaks up on you, Delta and her cast of characters came into my life, changing me forever. Perhaps it was Delta, maybe it was writing itself, but my life transformed dramatically.
Publishers have come and gone as the industry has changed dramatically. With Borders and Barnes and Nobles pushing out the smaller bookstores, smaller presses went with them...and so ended my publishers and Delta.
But I kept on writing...and now, I have published 10 novels in a variety of genres.
The Delta Stevens Mystery Series are now back in eBook format. You can purchase those from Bella Books as well.
Teaching & Traveling
Traveling also aids in my teaching world. I have been a teacher for 23 years, teaching everything from 4th grade to college, and I now teach at an American Military University online. I love teaching online, and teach everything from early American and British Lit, to Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit, to World Lit.
When I'm not teaching, I am traveling all over the place, and just recently returned from a trip in Egypt, where I did research for the third in the Across Time series. Travel is my muse, and I see her as often as I can.
I guess, in short, I have a great time and a wonderful life, and I've told people that I want my headstone to read "She lived an enviable life." I guess that's what I want for the people I love...for them to live the kind of life they envision...to write if that's what they want, to be a farmer if that is the life for them...to do and be what they dream because I am living proof that dreams come true. After ten published novels, I have a new dream, and I'm making steps every day to make that one come true.
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