Karilyne's Korner: An Allert Village Novel Paperback - 2015

I was born in the city of Springfield, Illinois and raised in a small neighborhood that was my world until Junior High. We knew all of our neighbors and they us. My brothers, sister and I roamed the neighborhood and the fields that enclosed it and I always had a book and a pad of paper with me. I cannot remember a time when I wasn't writing about something I had heard, seen, or felt but, like many writers, I stuffed piece and piece of notebook paper into shoeboxes or backpacks. I got busy raising children and occasionally creating stories for my boys in the same way that I had created them for my little sister, Katey. I wrote a couple of essays for Springfield's newspaper and started a blog but it wasn't enough...I had stories to tell! I published my first novel, Karilyne's Korner, the first in the Allert Village trilogy. I am currently working on the second book, Patricia's Promise for a summer release. I have been married to my husband, John, for 34 years and we have three sons and five grandchildren. We live in the country just north of a small village much like the one pictured in my book. When I am not writing or spending time with grandkids, I am teaching piano to a number of children who live in and around the village.