Hello, hello...I hate writing profiles, but here goes. I'm a schizophrenic former hairdresser (and you think I'm kidding) located in Bellevue, Washington, in a chronic disaster of a house with my husband, stepkids, two flatmates, and a small herd of cats. I've been on one form of disability benefits or another since 2006, and spend a lot of my time writing, mostly on what will eventually wind up the M trilogy. I hope to someday publish them, if I can get anyone to take a look at them. :) Please, if you read any of my things, take the time to review--tell me what you like, what you don't like, and why. Constructive criticism is well appreciated; it's the only way a writer can get better.

I'm still going back and editing bits of Curse of M, but my brain has been so eaten up by War of M that it's fairly slow going. Someday I'll get to the third, Gift of M, but at this rate I'll be thirty before I even get to start that one. The little two lines they give to summarize each story aren't nearly enough, so I'm going to at least attempt to give some idea of what each of my books is actually about:

Curse of M

One day the world is ordinary; what seems like the next, an explosive pandemic of what could only be called magic springs up all over the world. Otherwise ordinary people find themselves with gifts--or curses--they cannot control, and the persecution that ensues forces many to flee for their lives.

An institution is built in the remote Alaskan wilderness--prison and hospital combined, to which as many of the Gifted as can be caught are sent to be studied, to discover the source of this unstable curse and stamp it out. Confused, frightened, or half-mad, the inmates all have one thing in common--the powers foisted on them by an unknown source.

An angry ex-con turned musician, a grieving doctor, an unrepentant prostitute, and a man without a memory are put at the mercy of one of their own, who will stop at nothing to find out what makes them tick. Their conflict creates ripples in reality that spread far beyond what any of them might expect, and set the stage for far greater struggle that could only end in world war.

War of M

Six years gone, with magic still spreading like wildfire, the Gifted have won tentative acceptance through sheer numbers--have become the ‘landless nation’, a nation that is not a place, but a people. Their fragile peace with the mundane world is not to last, however; it is shattered first by the former head of the Institute, and then by forces beyond any human power to control.

The mundane world is thrown into chaos, the Gifted riven by civil war, but all will be forced together against a creature beyond a nightmare. A thousand years ago it drove magic close to extinction, contained at the last half by will and half by chance, and when it wakes it has one thing on its mind: vengeance. A circle a millennium in the making seeks to close itself, a circle that would bring utter destruction.

Gifted and mundane, friend and foe, the living and the dead--they must cooperate now or risk the annihilation of the entire world.