About My Books
In 1992 I joined with two other writers, children’s author lian goodall and recently-published poet Sheila O’Hearn, in a trio of mutual support for our creative writing. Without encouragement from these two fabulous women, I never would have had the courage to write a novel, let alone a series.
In Gloria Trevisi I created a “daughter” who shares my love of music and writing with my husband’s strong Italian work ethic and faith. Some people claim she is "me", but I know she is much, much smarter and certainly saner!
I wanted to produce something that wouldn’t embarrass a mom who found her thirteen-year-old daughter perusing her bookshelf. I think a young adult reader would get a kick out of this series.
Yes, I am proud of my work, and I’m forever thankful to Laura and Deron, the publishers who have accepted and nurtured it. I am also thankful to the publishers who rejected it. There’s nothing like a glimpse of thirty-odd rejections to keep a writer humble!
About Living
I once did the math and estimated that I had changed my place of residence at least once every two years from the time I was nine, the year of my parents’ marriage break-up. Moving was a way of life; I was becoming a wanderer! I decided the next move would be the last, for awhile. I settled here, in this gorgeous century home, and here I have stayed for more than twenty years.
As luck would have it, I live in a beautiful part of southwestern Ontario in one of the best countries in the world. I enjoy this agricultural heartland with my hardworking husband John, my Aussie Shepherd Luke, various cats, my beehives, piano students and mystery plots. Life is good.
