Nurturing someone through life’s trials, and truly understanding someone’s emotions, how they move, feel, react, and succeed or fail is what mothers do.  It’s who they are.  It is also what a writer does, and that is why it works for me.

Being true to the story— being the vessel in which the story can be told and the instrument in which to tell it. Becoming part of the characters, feeling their emotions, the pattern of their breathing, and the way that they believe and how they believe it, gives me purpose as a writer.  Like advocating for a child, I am advocating and bringing to the surface the characters that are otherwise unknown.

A native Atlantan, whose family is as much a part of the landscape as the ribbon of highways weaving through it, I have not left, though many times I have tried.  Now firmly rooted in the North Georgia mountains with my husband, I lead my quiet double life as a writer and the mom of a burgeoning rock star…because dreams happen.