About Me

I can write pages - literally hundreds of pages - defining who my characters are. But ask me to write a few tidbits about myself...and...well...fast forward to a blinking cursor for five straight minutes. But here goes!

I am a native New Englander that still scorns winter/laments my choice of location 5-6 months a year. And if it's above 30 degrees, I thoroughly believe it is acceptable to drink iced coffee.

I am married to the love-of-my-life husband,  and mother to (soon-to-be two) little lovies.

I love books. Like really love them. Like talk about them as though they are people love them. Like most *writerly* folks, I've always used books as an escape, for as long as I can remember. I used to dabble in writing when I was young, then out of the blue decided to write a novel about two years ago (we won't speak of that one - a 90,000 word MG Fantasy...oy vey). Now I have two (three if you count the-manuscript-that-must-not-be-named) completed MS's circulating the query trenches.

I read and write mostly YA fantasy and sci-fi, but dabble in all genres.

I've spent the last six years in marketing, following a stint as a journalist, following getting my degree in English, but now I intern for a fabulous literary agent, which I LOVE (couldn't say that about any of the other professional attempts) and have decided that I *must* make my professional life about publishing.

I think JK Rowling is a living legend. As in, she's a genius and anyone who says otherwise is crazy, crazy, crazy.

Nothing brings me more (professional) joy than finding a gem in the slush pile, polishing an amazing manuscript or writing "the end" at the end of my own work.

I am a huge Star Wars nerd. There, I said it.

I have a deep desire to help aspiring authors navigate the query trenches as best they can and would love to make a career out of helping writerly folks become authors.

Sometimes when I read incredible books I look at my own efforts and think, UGHH, writerly smiterly. I'll never write anything as good as this. But I've read a lot of author interviews and blogs, and it *seems* we all feel this way. So if you can sit your butt in a chair and put words down on paper, you *are* writerly. Even if we all feel writerly smiterly sometimes.