Welcome to my author website. As the picture above shows, it has been a long road to find my true calling as an aspiring author. I’ve always had a desire to write, but never took the time or opportunity to do so. I was too busy with college. In nine consecutive years, I’ve obtained three advanced degrees: a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Siena College (Loudonville, NY), a Masters in Public Health from the University of Albany at SUNY (Albany, NY), and finally a J.D. degree from Widener University Law School (Wilmington, DE). I’ve been admitted to practice law in New York since 1999.
For the first six years, I practiced full-time in a law firm setting concentrating on corporate health law and developed a specialty niche in the mental health field. After spending one of those years as a partner in the firm, I left and began practicing as a solo practitioner with a general law practice.
After a number of serious health problems, and a near-death experience in 2008, I changed my priorities. After all, life is too short to not do what you love. I began to focus less on law and spent more time writing, and writing and writing. In February 2010, I joined the Savvy Authors website and it wasn’t long before the owners asked if I was interested in writing a blog on ‘legal issues for writers’. In March 2010, ‘the Writer’s Court’ was born and I’ve maintained the blog ever since. Currently articles are posted monthly on a variety of topics facing writers in this ever changing world of publishing.
Finally I discovered exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up, an author AND an attorney. Combining my legal knowledge with my desire to write has been the most natural transition for me. In 2010, I started teaching workshops for writers and have a secondary website at www.legally-write.com. There you can find information about my workshops and articles on legal issues that face writers.
Attempting to quench my burning desire to write fiction, I’m working on revising my first contemporary romance novel tentatively titled, “Mending Broken Fences.”
When I’m not writing, I’m a happily married mother to three wonderful quadra-ped children of the feline variety.