
In 1997, Alyson Publications published Dream Lover, a novel about the improbable affair of two former school friends who fall in love as middle-aged women.

I joined the staff of the Marin Independent Journal in 1995, working first as an editorial writer and later a reporter. In 1991, Avon Books published my second novel, Promise Not to Tell, a story about an unhappy teen-aged boy who helps a friend in desperate trouble, creating more trouble along the way but learning a lot about kindness, friendship and the criminal justice system. From 1983 to 1995, I worked as a massage therapist, English teacher and freelance journalist, writing mostly for Plexus, the San Francisco Chronicle and The Slant, a Marin County LGBT newspaper that I helped launch and edit. That same year, Holt, Rinehart and Winston published M arin: The Place, The People, a profile of Marin County, California, with photography by Robert Conover.

Little, Brown and Company, published Crush in 1981. There, I wrote Crush on a Hermes typewriter at an oak table by my window on Webster Street. In 1973 I moved to New York City to work at Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., where I produced multi-media programs for school audiences.

My first paid writing job was creating live, multi-media high school assembly programs for Rick Trow Productions in Philadelphia. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.
