From the first time I read a Superman comic, I wanted to be Lois Lane. Not because she wanted the big lug, but because she wanted the story.

After a interesting but ultimately unsuccessful two-year stint at the United States Coast Guard, I went back to my first ambition and obtained a degree in journalism from Boston University. After graduation, I worked as a municipal reporter in New Jersey, at the The Bernardsville News in Bernardsville, then The New Jersey Herald in Newton. I also wrote book reviews for the Newark Star-Ledger.

Unfortunately, after a wrist injury, my journalism career was derailed and I ended up in retail, managing bookstores for Barnes & Noble. This gave great insight into what makes and breaks book sales, but it also tended to break other things, like my patience and my feet.

I left retail after the unexpected birth of twins to make motherhood my full-time job. But I very soon discovered a creative outlet was needed to keep my sanity and started writing fiction, my first love.

So far, I’ve completed four books, three in a romance mystery series that features reporter Trisha Connell aka Faith the Reporter Slayer, and her lover, security expert Edmund Grayson. The fourth manuscript, DINAH OF SENECA, veers off into another love of mine, history, and explores what would happen if Rome lasted long enough to found a colony in North American.

To keep my hand in non-fiction work, I am a staff writer for Sequential Tart (www.sequentialtart.com), a website devoted to the works of sequential art aka comic books, and organized and written only by women. I also co-moderate an on-line workshop for New York Times Bestselling author Jennifer Cruise and have the dubious honor of having my creative tires rotated by Ms. Crusie on a regular basis.