Lifelong actress; writer/author since 1983. Also writes stage plays and movie scripts (one a recent quarterfinalist). Master's in history in 2006. Became authorized Bonanza novelist in 1996. Have been traditionally published but turned three of those into self-published with better editions and covers. Journal of an Undead: Love Stories was inappropriately listed at Solstice as paranormal romance; instead it’s heavy on history and needed more connection to the other two in the trilogy, so I let the contract expire. Rowman & Littlefield, now Bloomberg, recently published Virginia City Vs. Bonanza: A Tale of Merging Histories, heavily promoted with four presentations in Nevada in June 2024. Lots of on-the-road primary research, traveling solo, presentations given around the country. Saving Boone and  Grimms American Fairy Tales were published with poor covers by All Things That Matter Press; when she forced the cancellation of Boone, they also unpublished Grimms. Both are now available in more polished versions. The original publisher for a decade on two Bonanza novels, Felling of the Son and Mystic Fire, retired; one was used three times as required college reading and won two awards. Working on Volume vi of her copper artifact resources manual series and a Black migration project based on oral histories.