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My first job was as an ice cream scooper at Braum’s. The upside was free ice cream. The downside was the brown polyester pants and the brown baseball caps with the pompoms on the top. (I kid you not). I worked as a lifeguard and swim coach for most of college. I tell everyone that this was the best job to have, but that it ruined me for anything else. (What do you mean I have to work for eight hours? In a row? Don’t I get a break every hour?) After college I worked as a pastry chef in a small bakery in Reno, Nevada. I loved this job and I got pretty good at decorating cakes. The only thing that kept me from weighing a thousand pounds while I was there was that it coincided with my stint as a triathlete. I raced for nearly ten years, completing over fifty triathlons. I even did an Ironman. (That was a long day).

I ended up going to grad school twice. The first time I got a degree in library science. The second time I studied creative writing. That’s when things started to make a little more sense. Somehow I managed to pull my intense love of books, my vaguely creative side, and the big part of me that seems to have never left my teenage years all together. I’ve written three novels with Brad Barkley: Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, Dream Factory and Jars of Glass. I am also the author of The Cupcake Queen, my first solo novel.

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