Author's Journey
Meet the Author
I am an accomplished contemporary fiction author with a background in professional feature film screenwriting and a Master's in Communication Studies who has written five novels thus far. The Last Solo Roller was written originally as a screenplay. My passion for storytelling has led me to create the Down the Prairie Rabbit Hole Romance Series, following the triumphs and tribulations of a variety of colorful and loveable characters.
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In between incomprehensible death-defying adventures and inexplicable and unexpected blessings from the spirit realm, I explore my imaginary friends' romantic relationship problems and interpersonal conflicts. Though my characters and their experiences seem larger than life, they really aren't so different from us and our own that we can't be inspired by and grow from their stories. It's better that they endure the ups and downs of walking the rocky red road of life than us, after all. Right?​​
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"Words are in my not-so-humble opinion our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of inflicting injury and remedying it." J K Rowling
Montana Rafferty Moss
"Words were originally magic, and [each] word retains much of its old magical power even today." Sigmund Freud
Born in Virginia to an Army officer working at the Pentagon, my mother took me and four siblings to live in Florida after my dad left to serve in Korea. Then we moved to New York where he taught Military Science at Siena College. A few years in beautiful Germany after that was followed by an idyllic time in Fort Riley, Kansas. It was where I caught fireflies and watched daily for the tornado that never came.
When he retired, we moved to San Diego, California, where I eventually married and had three sons. Then it was off to live in Seattle until Y2K, when we left for Missoula, Montana, on the eve of the millennium. Although I divorced and moved away over twenty years later, one son remains there. Another is in Tucson and the youngest is here in Colorado Springs. I have five grandchildren, three step-grandchildren, and a step-great-grandchild between the three.
I live with my best friend, Angel, a Ragdoll cat. Maybe someday when I tire of writing, I'll give romantic love a try again. I'm having far too much fun right now living it vicariously through my characters. ;o)
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"Walk in the rain, smell flowers, stop along the way, build sandcastles, go on field trips, find out how things work, tell stories, say the magic words, trust the universe." Bruce Williamson