The lowdown:

I currently live between Houston and Galveston with my husband, two sons, and our adventure dog, Indiana Jones.  I do my writing with an ice-cold can of Dr. Pepper and my reading with cake whenever possible.  I’m dreaming of the day when I find myself conscripted into a flash mob dance.

The highlights:

1990 Read Pride and Prejudice for the first time in high school British Lit.

1992 Re-read P&P for British Lit at UT Austin, wrote a spot of literary criticism.

1994 Graduated from UT Austin with an electrical engineering degree, started reading Emma in my spare time. Married my best friend!

2000 Became a mom and moved from Austin to Houston.  During afternoon naptime, started writing what would become my first novel.

2002 Welcomed baby number two, another boy, and officially became a Boy Mom.

2004 Self-published my Regency historical romance, Unladylike Pursuits, started on the manuscript that would become Austen-tatious.

2007 Read Jane Austen’s Complete Works, became obsessed with Austen sequels and re-writes, and developed a girl crush on J.A.

2009 Signed with Rebecca Strauss of McIntosh & Otis

2010 Contracted by Kensington in a two-book deal, the first, Austen-tatious, to be published in February 2012.

Loves:

haikus, Anthropologie, live oaks, Hitchcock films, soda fountains, summer fruit, aqua, tea cups, chips & salsa, pretty, sparkly things, rooftop gardens, fairy lights, little splurges, books, quilts, journals, juicy color, lemon meringue pie

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