I live on a farm outside Portland, Oregon. I have a basset hound named Daria, a Shetland pony named Tinkerbell, and various and sundry cats (house-, barn-, and feral) who come and go as they please. I used to raise miniature roses, a business I inherited from my parents, but which my heart was not in. My parents died when I was in college. My mother had colon cancer and died two weeks before I turned 21, and my father had heart failure, and died when I was 25, two weeks before I finished college. I am an only child, which made the loss that much more difficult to deal with, but through it all, I had Ric by my side. He is my rock and my angel.

   My current projects include getting back into dance after taking a year off while planning my wedding, getting married, and settling in, and getting myself a new house, as this decrepit piece of tin is just not going to hang in there much longer. I am back en pointe after many years dancing on demi-pointe, and I love it. I'm actually stronger than I've been in years. I very recently added a sixth dance class to my schedule and am looking forward to a performance in the spring. The new house can't come soon enough. When I get it, everyone will know.

   As for my online presence, my website resides in a nice little community of sites run by a group of lovely young women collectively known as the Kallurians, all of whom live in and rule over the Empire of Kalluria (where three of my novels take place), and who have such things in common as a love of diamonds, U2, L.J. Smith, and spirited beverages. Together, we spend time with our friends, the Cheese Pirates, and welcome any and all new minions, hangers-on, wannabe's, and e-tards. And of course, any actual cool people.