I wrote my first story at age 6.  As I grew older, I added satirical pieces and articles to my repertoire, submitting my first article to a monthly publication at age twelve.  They turned me down, but that didn't stop me.  I continued to write short stories, articles, opinion pieces, and even going so far as to produce a satirical booklet in the style of MAD Magazine for my family and friends.

​

When the real world insinuated itself upon my life, otherwise known as adulthood, I stopped writing.  I spent ten years ignoring that part of my soul until I started playing table-top and video games.  The need to write burst out of the dungeon I'd shoved it into and burned through me like the phoenix rising from the ashes.  I joined the DFW Writer's Workshop to help hone my craft and finally sold my first article.  I was a columnist for Positive Parenting Magazine, as well as a regular contributor to Birth to 12, a magazine offered to new parents once they leave the hospital with their new baby.  Other freelance jobs followed.

​

As much as I enjoyed writing the parenting articles, my first love was fiction.  The last few years, I've put my freelance writing on hold in order to concentrate more on fiction writing.  My first novel, Balanced Edge, garnered some interest, but was ultimately rejected.  I am now working on a second novel co-written with my son.

​

In the meantime, I needed to pay the bills, so I've worked in retail sales, including owning and managing my own gift shop for six years.  Through my marketing efforts, I was able to grow the business from a $2000 total startup to a business that made $5000 in sales per month.  I filled many roles for the shop.  I designed product packaging, decided on marketing strategies, designed and wrote the advertisements, including television commercials, handled public relations and was the project manager for several store sponsored events.

 

After that, I entered started working for the corporate offices of a Fortune 500 company and discovered a whole new level of soul-sucking.  After three years of learning that their idea of "thinking outside of the box" was actually a box within a box--when I tried to step outside of that box, I found myself trapped and confined by a second one.  I decided enough was enough.  It was time to go for my degree.  I chose the Media Communications degree because I felt it would combine what I enjoyed about retail, like the marketing, ad copywriting, and event planning, with my avid interest in video games and my love of writing.  I enrolled in the MCBS program at Full Sail University, a school that specializes in the entertainment industry, and had one of the most rewarding learning experiences of my life.

 

There I discovered new layers of my passion through digital storytelling.  With my areas of knowledge and special interest mostly involving video games and movies, I want a career change that involves digital storytelling within the video game or film industry.  My dream job?  Designing game and/or movie trailers.  

​

I'm tired of working jobs that stifle my creativity.  This time I want to have fun for a living.