I consider myself a resident
of the "mid-South", which is
defined as everything from
Oklahoma to upper Alabama.
I've lived in various southern
states and feel a pretty strong
connection to Alabama, which doesn't claim me but hasn't
figured out how to stop me
from coming around.

In fact, three of my other
(also unpublished) novels
are set on the eastern shore
of Mobile Bay (a series of
mysteries) and I hope you'll
see them in print someday.

I really am a "closet writer," 
but you can find me posting
bits of fluff on Gather.com 
(they can't figure out how to
keep me from coming around, either).

Steadily writing for my own entertainment--because I just haven't been able to stop--for
the last eight years, I am glad
to finally get into print so I can
find out whether anyone else
has any interest in what I've
been doing "in the privacy of
my own home" all this time!

Evan's Castle is by no
means my first novel. 
It actually falls about fifth
in line of those I've completed.
I can't explain why this is
the one I chose to submit to Stonegarden.net, so don't ask!

I have also edited several manuscripts for publication by Stonegarden, which has been
an interesting process. 

For fun, I have started volunteering with Distributed Proofreaders
 to help prepare works
for Project Gutenberg.