I can’t remember a time when I didn’t write. In grade school I used to take work home at night so I could create stories to entertain my classmates during the day. I loved filling the pages of notebooks on both sides so the paper would crinkle. At that time, my dream was to write and illustrate children's books when I grew up.
Whether working on a story or not, if I am sad, mad, happy or have a thought I think is profound, I have to write it down. I find that even during lectures, meetings, etc. I think better if I write down what is being said. I may never look at it again, but I’ve learned more effectively if I’ve written it down.
My childhood dream has come true to a certain extent, I now have four young adult books in print. Of course in my dream I was to have made my living writing, but that was not to be. I retired several years ago after thirty-three years as a legal secretary and office manager for the Provo City Attorney’s Office. The heroine in the mainstream mystery/adventure novel I am currently working on is a defense attorney who finds herself in a web of intrigue surrounding the death of her unborn child’s father. As with most authors, some of my own experiences sneak into my story lines. The nice thing about being a writer, however, is that I can manipulate the plot so it ends up better (or worse) on the page than it did in life.
In several of my books, the settings on a Montana cattle ranch and on the shores of that state’s glorious Flathead Lake are places I have lived. Now in addition to telling a story, I have a history to hand down to my descendants. My husband, Scott, a computer genius and remarkable photographer, and I tried to make these novels special keepsake books for the whole family. They all have meaningful plots filled with adventure, mystery, sweet romance and horses (and you don’t even have to like horses). Hopefully they will inspire readers to want to be better people.
I live in Mapleton, Utah, with my husband, Scott. I have two grown children, five grandkids and four horses who I sometimes consider my children.
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Fiction - Heather Series, Book 1 - Set against a backdrop of horses and jumping competitions, Quality Concealed is a feel-good story of devotion, determination, and of making dreams come true. The only thing 16-year-old Heather desires more than a Thoroughbred jumper is handsome David. Her horse Possum, a lovable gray gelding of questionable ancestry, can never match best friend Sheila's Thoroughbred, but David is slowly becoming more than a study companion. Then Sheila zeros in. When Kevin Quinn, Heather's mysterious neighbor, suggests they train Possum to jump, she thinks it nothing more than a summer pastime, until September finds them at the Utah State Fair, pitted against Sheila and her seasoned jumper, Pagan. |
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Fiction - Heather Series, Book 2 - Brothers. . .yes, Katie had two--both tall, lean and handsome--one a master of flirtation, the other sat a horse like he'd been molded from the same lump of clay. Seventeen-year-old Heather is a city girl from Utah--not a Montana ghostbuster. Yet Katie's revelations about the dead man and recent supernatural happenings prick Heather's imagination. One night circumstances force her to return, alone, to the scene of Charlie's death. Can she unravel the mystery that's plagued the Taggert family for twenty years? Does she have the courage to risk everything, even her life, for the sake of her new friends? |
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Fiction - Heather Series, Book 3Join Heather, Royal Image and Possum on the shores of Flathead Lake in northwestern Montana in Challenge of Choice, the third volume in the Heather trilogy. David and Ty meet, and the life of a horse is put at risk. A current boyfriend and a former boyfriend, two jumping horses to show, a missing racehorse, a newborn filly with a questionable pedigree, a human corpse dredged up from the bottom of Flathead Lake--just a normal summer for Heather Chambers in Challenge of Choice, the final book (following Quality Concealed and Image of Deception) in the “Heather” trilogy. Leaving David Cane behind in Utah, Heather travels to Montana to promote her Thoroughbred jumper, Image, or so she thinks. Although her stepfather, Kevin, claims he “never interferes,” he decides Heather should see Tyler Taggert again before telling David she will marry him. Okay. She can go along with that. No problem. No problem, that is, until David shows up at the Taggert horse farm on the shores of Flathead Lake, hauling Possum, Heather’s backup mount. “Now you have both boyfriends together. You can compare,” Kevin tells a distraught Heather. |
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Fiction - Share the joy of discovering the true meaning of Christmas along with recently repentant, spoiled brat Paige Covington; Lindsay, one of her newfound friends; and her Thoroughbred jumper, Major, all influenced by the behavior of this free-spirited girl. "So much commotion over Christmas. Why not just hand over the loot and forget the traditions?" Paige is in for a big surprise when a juvenile court judge orders her to complete sixty hours of community service at a hippotherapy clinic, using horses to assist physically and mentally challenged individuals. |
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