I was born with a book in my hand. My whole family read constantly and, as everybody knows, once the pattern is set there is no going back.
My European travels were shaped by authors’ lives and imaginations. My London was Dickens’ London; the south of England belonged to Hardy; the Lake Country was alive with Peter Rabbits and Mrs. Tiggy - Winkles; and Rome and Florence were viewed through the eyes of James and Forster.
Although in college I turned to the visual arts, taking undergraduate and graduate degrees in the History of Art, I never stopped reading. Even twenty years of practicing law did not staunch the tide. When my husband and I moved from the west coast to Virginia and then retired to the Piedmont region, I finally had time to fulfill my writing dream.
In The French Lieutenant’s Woman John Fowles states that all writers of fiction share one thing: they “wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is.”
It is my goal to bring Virginia’s richly colored past to life. If I create, for Colonial Virginia, a world “as real as, but other than” it was, I will be well-pleased.
The following links, among many, will help the reader on the journey.