I'm riding Star in the picture above, AKA "Taffy." I wish Star were mine, but he belongs to my friend Vicki, who generously lets us hang out at her stables and take pictures of "Taffy" and "Dixie" (the pinto horse, Patches, in Family Secret). 

I've written stories since I was about ten years old. If you want to see what some of those are about, click here: OLD STORIES. 

I never intended to become a published author. I just liked writing stories for myself and for my younger sister, Julie. But once I began sharing my stories outside my family, enough people encouraged me to submit to publishers. They wouldn't let me give up! With the publication of the first book of my Circle C Adventures, Andrea Carter and the Long Ride Home, I discovered that it really is more fun to share my stories with others than to keep them to myself.

I have a degree in elementary education and love to teach. I taught in Christian schools before I began homeschooling. I've just finished up homeschooling the last of my four children, but I will teach a couple of grandchildren to read this fall, so I guess I'm "back in the saddle" as far as homeschooling goes.

I teach writing workshops for kids, speak at schools about the writing process, am a freelance editor, enjoy my eight grandkids, and...write stories, of course.

Find out what I was like as a kid in this delightful interview by Crystal Laine Miller: Kids Who Grew Up to Write for Kids

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