I like gravy. 



This has nothing to do with the rest of my bio, but I thought you ought to know. 



About the writing thing...

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I wrote my first play when I was six and made my brothers perform it for my parents. I charged gum wrappers for admission (a steal, in my opinion, considering I had handed out the gum wrappers ahead of time). While I seriously doubt you'll be seeing any of my formative work on Broadway anytime soon, I can credit these early experiments with the first of many important lessons I learned about writing: no matter how brilliant your manuscript is, some kid can go streaking across the living room, and totally undermine your vision.



Cue the lightbulb moment. People like funny stuff!



I never quite gave up on the writing thing, even as I earned a Master's degree in art history and spent a decade in the corporate gulag, but in those quiet moments when expense reports had been filed and to-do items checked off, the funny people in my head kept talking to me. 

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What came out was an amalgamation (vocabulary!) of all the things I love: funny stuff, art, psychology, food, people, and paranormal critters!

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Et voila! The Case Files of Dr. Matilda Schmidt, Paranormal Psychologist were born.

 

When I'm not sitting in my office watching cat videos and pretending to write, I like cooking, knitting (badly), wandering through museums, attacking late night Thai food with my face, and contemplating numerology. 

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I live in Texas with a surly cat named Patches.