I NEVER CONSIDERED MYSELF TO BE AN AUTHOR...

If you had asked me three years ago if I saw myself writing a novel, I would have laughed. My sister was the writer in the family. She would write beautiful essays that would bring tears to your eyes. However, she shifted gears and went into psychology and here I am. I became a stay at home mom after my second child was born. I was planning on being the mom that joined the PTO, substituted in classrooms and did all the stay at home mom things I remember my mother doing in my youth.

One night, I had a dream. I was in a large cavern and I couldn't remember anything. I couldn't remember how I got there or why there were a number of people in there. I also didn't know why one of them kept arguing with me. A story developed in this dream, but dreams being dreams, there was no sense to any of it. There were ice cream parlors and shops in this cave in my dream. I woke up thinking, that was the weirdest dream I have had in a long time!!

However, I couldn't shake it. It stayed with me and haunted me as a story that needed to be told. So I sent my kids off to school one day and I sat at my computer and began typing. I typed the things that I remembered from the dream. Then I read it and said to myself, how can I make this more believable? It was at that moment that THE CAVERN was born. I used my time while the children were at school, or napping, and sometimes even while they were playing to add to this story. I brainstormed in the shower, before bed, driving to the store...the characters grew. I am so happy with how THE CAVERN turned out. It is the exact story I wanted to tell.

I am in love with my characters and the environment itself. I hope you fall in love with it too!!

THE CAVERN will be available in May 2025 and I just can't wait. Keep checking my website and social media for information such as voting on the cover, the details of availability, and what my experiences are as a new author publishing a book.