Meet Elizabeth

My responsibility as a writer is to hook you from the first sentence. To ignite your brain’s hardwired desire to learn what happens next. But as you get to know my characters, I want you filled with a sense of hope and possibility—with the magic that can happen when someone first pokes a toe out of their comfort zone. I hope you’ll care about their emotional hurts and the misunderstandings that cause them to stumble, and cheer them on as they make choices that lead to fulfilling lives. Then as you reach the final page, I want you to experience the that-was-so-good feeling that makes you hurry to hand the book to a good friend and say, Read this.

As a quotidian reader for as long as I can remember, I didn’t know my plans included becoming an author. Instead, I followed in my pedagogical father’s footsteps and studied education at The University of Memphis, where I taught elementary school for twenty years.

Then with a move to Virginia, I “retired” and decided to try my hand at penning fiction. I jumped off the cliff without a degree in Creative Writing. Or parachute. But I joined the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, which helped to connect me with other writers and learning opportunities. I served the organization as director of craft education programs for two years and built my chops.

I’m now the author of five novels: four works of women’s fiction in which the plot is driven by the main character’s emotional journey and my first genre romance.

I live with my husband and our rescue pup Georgette in Greenville, South Carolina home of the Kessler Collection’s Grand Bohemian Lodge which inspired Christmas at Reedy Falls: A Romance.