About the Author
You're here! You've found me! So let me take a moment to tell you a little about who I am.
Where it began
I started writing when I was the wee age of 11 after my English teacher noted a passion in me. We had written small little in class books and I fell hard in love. She told me about this amazing program called NaNoWriMo and I figured I had nothing to lose. They had youth options where you set your own word goals, but I figured that if the standard goal of 50,000 words in 30 days, it couldn't really be that bad... right?
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Suffice to say, I did it. My first book was called Secret Dreamer. In the next several years, I went on to finish the series with Secret Darkness, and the final installment Secret Silence. While you'll mostly find the Guardians Novels here, the first two Secret Novels are out there in the universe. I wrote two other full length novels in HS that I never went on to publish but live rent free in my mind wondering if they will ever get a chance to come out to the world.
The continued journey
Since just a couple of years have passed since I started writing, I have been living life to the fullest. I have a bachelors degree in Global Resource Systems and Environmental Studies and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology with a Medical Anthropology emphasis. Amazingly, I get to use my degree currently supporting the refugee community in Iowa through my day-to-day job.
In my free time, I play co-ed softball, crochet, read, paddleboard with my dog, sit on volunteer boards for the community, and most importantly study martial arts. I've been a practicioner of Hapkido - a Korean self defense art - since 2011 and consider the gym my second home. The work I do in Hapkido often reflects in my books as I strive to make as realistic of fight scenes as I can. Luckily I have some amazing friends who will even let me mock out fights with them.
