I live Drummond, Southland, New Zealand with my husband of 32 years. I have two children, a boy and a girl, both married and have two adorable time-wasting grandsons and an adorable grand-daughter

I have been writing since high school, but only seriously for about the last ten years. Have suffered like everyone through rejections.

I am a member of Romance Writers of New Zealand, EPPRO and the World Romance Writers Assn.

I love motor racing and take an active part in the administration side at race and rally meetings. My husband retired asGeneral Manager for MotorSport NZ when we moved to Drummond, but we still take and active part in Motorsport and look after the Tranzam racing group.

Two and a half years ago we moved from Paraparaumu in the North Island of NZ to Drummond, which is in the very south of the South Island of NZ. This for us has been a complete change of lifestyle. We now live in a small town of approx 45 households and have seven acres of land on which we run 30 sheep and their offspring. Our nearest shops are 18 km away and our nearest town is 40 km away.

I spend as much time as I can writing, but because of committment of work, which I do from home, I cannot spend every day doing my favorite pastime. I do however try and write in the afternoons, time permitting.

My hobbies are gardening, patchwork, reading (of course), travel, knitting and cooking.

My first book, "The Wandering Minstrel" was published by New Concepts Publishing in September 1999 and my second "Model in Flight " was released in May 2000, my third book "Race into Love" was published towards the end of 2001.

All three books are currently under contract to Springree publishing for translation into German. Publication dates are yet to be announced. "The Wandering Ministrel is due out in print from NCP shortly.

I had the privilege of being asked to do an article for an anthology which came out on the 1 May 2000, called Millennial Milestones - A celebration of Change. This was to raise funds for Diabetes.

I have also done an article for another anthology - at this time called Crumbs in my Keyboard - which is to raise funds for a Women's Shelter. It is a humorous look at how you coped with writing while being a wife and mother. Another anthology that I took part in was "At Grandma's Knee" which was published by Gemini Books and was to raise funds for St Judes Hospital. These were stories told to us by our mothers and grandmothers.

I am dedicated to my craft of writing and want to do well at it, be it in print or e-publishing.