I write healing fiction that makes people laugh
while they are changing their lives.

Author, Seeker,Teacher

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"Anything work doing is worth overdoing. Are you overdone yet?"

I began writing when I could hold a piece of chalk and scribble my name--although I sometimes mistook "Chocolate" for "Charlotte" on the sign at the drug store ice cream counter. When my teacher let me into the fiction room at the school library, I discovered Louisa Alcott and Robert Heinlein, an odd marriage of the minds. These two authors, along with many others have had the most influence on my desire to share my point of view with the world and to explore how the world might be made better.

Having spent my youth teaching English, I have had a few publications, most recently two SF story cycles of six pieces in a collection Port Nowhere. I won an Eppie for my poems in an anthology for Children, The Thing in the Tub. My other credits include two short stories at SteelCaves.com, an article in Circle Santuary, magazine, and a meditation in the Upper Room.

Moving beyond the first half century of my life, I am revising a fantasy novel, and have begun plotting a series of stories in a shared universe. I want to explore the clashes in societies between an engineered society and a lawless anarchy.

I bring to the project a number of experiences, including work as a technical writer, a gasket inspector, a webmaster, and a telephone psychic.
I have entered grad school online, which requires semi-annual trips to California, giving me more perspective on my Southern heritage. I study mythology and psychology to deepen my work with themes from ancient sources. They don't even laugh at my drawl...at least not more than once. Sharing perspectives with people from across the country gives me time to delve into the cultural notions that are as invisible to us as water is to fish, a sort of fertilizer for the soul!