Growing up in Canada, the U.S., Spain, England and the Czech Republic has given my novels their international flavours. My parents were diplomats and my mother was British so I spent two years in a British boarding school while my parents were posted behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Now, after teaching college writing courses and raising two children, I live with my husband on Canada’s Vancouver Island, spend time writing in Crete each year, and still have ties with family and friends in England and the U.S.
My four novels have been published by tiny Canadian presses. Three were shortlisted for awards, and Cally’s Way, set in Crete, earned a featured review in Kirkus Magazine, reached #2 on a Canadian bestseller list, and was invited to Britain’s Folkestone Book Festival in 2014. My Page Turner Writing Awards entry, The Angels' Share, also set in Crete, was fun to research and write, and explores sexuality, criminality and climate change questions of interest to people everywhere. I hope this novel will find me an agent so my writing can entertain a broader, international readership.
Next on my agenda are in-depth revisions of a Cold War romantic thriller about forbidden love between a Czech violin student and a Canadian ambassador's daughter.
Thank you for considering my work.
