Charlie and Mama Kyna is an award-winning charming book with beautiful illustrations for children. The story and illustrations are based on my internationally acclaimed film, Going Home, which was shown worldwide, including 45 film festivals and London Film Festival. The story is about a little stuffed animal frog, named Charlie who runs away in fear…
Funny. The inspiration for Football is for Lovers was a disaster. Not the content: we’ve always loved football, and thought it was too bad that so many couples seemed to be missing out on the fun, and ended up fighting over the TV clicker instead. So the opportunity to suggest a new way of looking…
Ten years ago my husband and I were hit with very disturbing news. We noticed that our two-year-old daughter’s left eye would drift uncontrollably, and we took her to the doctor. She was diagnosed with a rare eye disease called Retina Blastoma, which is a malignant tumor that forms in the eye, and causes the…
Sometimes a story doesn’t begin as a idea, sometimes a story begins as a hero in search of a story. So it was with Magnificent Man. My personal idea of a hero is not only someone who performs rescues, saves lives, or fights for his ideals, my idea of a hero is someone who does…
Meggie’s Remains, my first completed manuscript and fourth sale, is near and dear to my heart. The title changed from Columbine Captive—for obvious reasons—to Day Dreams ~ Haunted Nights, but at the end of the day, became Meggie’s Remains. You might ask what this means, and well you should. Is Meggie dead, buried six feet…
Freedom of press the sitting duck is about express myself by using poetry about situation journalists face in the connection with their reporting. In this book, I talk about journalists being kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured and in the worse case they even get killed by politicians, criminal groups and religious organizations who are also politically motivated.…
The Story Behind the Book 