I was lucky enough to inherit the storytelling gene from both parents. Could be the Irish gene pool! Growing up in a big family helped too.
I’ve moved around a lot, which kind of helped with the storytelling as well: starting out in Canada then Memphis, Milwaukee, San Jose, Seattle, Irvine, Los Gatos and now back to the South. Early on I did marketing communications for a semiconductor company, then raised two sons and worked as a school librarian. A late bloomer, I started writing seriously with the support of my family and the Orange County chapter of Romance Writers of America, then the Silicon Valley chapter before our latest move to Huntsville, Alabama.