If there's one throughline to my life, it is writing. My second grade teacher made me promise I would dedicate a book to her one day. That's how long I've been writing.

I wrote stories as a child, poems as a teenager, and website copy in the early internet days as I earned a degree in English. I worked in technical product management for 15 years, during which time I created a luxury travel blog, Wanderlux.com. That rekindled my passion for writing and led to publishing opportunities with the wire services.