I’ve always enjoyed writing, whether it involved putting my thoughts down on paper, or using my imagination in dreaming up characters, worlds, and stories.
In school, I excelled in English and served as co-editor of my high school newspaper. As a college freshman, an English professor asked permission to print one of my pieces in the school newspaper. While taking a science fiction literature class during my junior year, I opted to write a lengthy story for my semester project.
You’d think I’d have gotten a clue as to what I truly enjoyed, but I graduated from the UW-Eau Claire in 1979 with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry.
I grew up in the church and have always participated in activities and ministries. For the past seventeen years, I’ve served on the contemporary worship team at my church as a vocalist. In past years, I’ve played supportive roles in musical productions produced by the church’s drama ministry and have also been involved in youth ministry programs.
I began writing again while working with the teen drama group. I discovered putting words to paper fed a creative need that nothing else could.
A member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) since 2004, I currently meet with three authors, members of ACFW, who gather weekly to discuss the craft of writing, our current projects, and the publishing business.
As a freelance writer, my work can be heard on Heartbeat of the Home. This radio ministry, broadcast on 20 stations across the United States, presents a spiritual lesson through gripping, poignant, and sometime humorous stories acted out for listening audiences. Each presentation concludes with a short and gentle teaching segment.
After years of critiquing work written by fellow writers, I not only discovered that I loved the editing process, I believed I’d developed the skills necessary to also pursue a career as a freelance editor. That resulted in launching Faithfully Write Editing and providing critiquing, copyediting, substantive editing, and proofreading services for both fiction and nonfiction writers.