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My debut novel, Clean Sweep, was published in July of 2021. It is available in eBook, hardcover, softcover, audiobook and through Kindle Unlimited. Thunder in Yellowstone was released in November 2023, and I am busy working on my next novel.

As some of you know, I jumped into my writing career fresh off of retirement as a flower farmer. It might not be the most orthodox way to start writing, but it works for me! To learn more of my unusual life progression, and other author’s musings, why not join my newsletter brigade?

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Please, take a seat, and picture this: the spacious interior of a well-lit barn with its floor lined with buckets of freshly-cut flowers, a different mass of color to every bucket: yellow, white, pink, orange, purple, deep blue, red, and more.

Imagine an assortment of flower shapes and textures, from tight balls of blooms to airy pillows of gentle cotton-candy-like blossoms.

Now, close your eyes and consider a blend of floral fragrances so sweet you can’t help but inhale deeply to fill your entire self with every last bit of its offering.

For one beautiful decade, I was a flower farmer, and this was my life. Well, part of it.

The other part was long days in sun so hot it seared my head right through my wide-brimmed hat; prepping flower rows in early spring and cleaning up after the season in numbing cold, and tackling other daily tasks in unavoidable downpours.

It was rounded out with aching muscles, assorted mishaps, and a carousel of obstacles like hurricanes, drought, hungry insects, and more.

Before you send hundreds of thousands of blooms to florists, weddings, supermarket bouquets and table centerpieces, you pay the piper with sweat, honest sweat! This is farming.

If farming teaches you one thing, and one thing only, it’s that life revolves around seasons and change.

In early 2020, I, like so many others, faced a tough decision: continue farming in some version of normal, or slow down the flowers for the year and see what else I could dig up. Surely, you know the path taken.

So, let’s get on with it. Let’s take this writing journey together.

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