At my elementary school, you weren't given a library card for the school library until the 5th grade.  I was granted a special exception and given one in the 2nd grade.  I spent so much time in the library and showed such reverence for the books, they decided they could trust me.  I'm still very proud about that.

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My grandmother was young adult mystery writer Joan Lowery Nixon.  She took me and my sisters to Agatha Christie plays when I was still very young.  I loved them, though I wouldn't be able to sleep for weeks after.  Thus, murders were a common part of my childhood, which is why they now play a frequent role in my books.

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It didn't surprise anyone in my family when I declared I had decided to become a writer.  I completed my first novel the summer before I started high school.  In the tradition of many authors, I have put that manuscript in a drawer and pray it never sees the light of day.

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In those early days, I dabbled in a few different genres, but I was always destined to be a science fiction author.  I love the currently-impossible-yet-plausible.

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When I'm not writing, I'm walking my dogs so that they will stop wrestling on my feet and let me get some writing done!  I also volunteer as a stage manager and a dance teacher.

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