I am a writer. I write. I’ve written all my life. At four years of age I produced my first “book.” Five pages long, written, illustrated, and sewn together by me, I called it THE RED PONY. How was I to know Steinbeck got there first? Then came a long long break during which I did anything and everything but write. Looking back, I now see that “break” as the life I needed to live in order to be the writer I wanted to be.
To do anything well takes a lot of hard work. Sometimes that hard work
doesn’t look like work at all, just living one step at a time. My steps
took me through all those vital, varied, and scary adventures that
culminated in finally sitting the heck down…and writing.
As an autodidact, I am without academic credentials other than my work, for which I do not apologize…neither for the work nor the lack of formal credentials. The talent must be there, that’s a given, but a writer reads and writes herself into her craft, hoping one day to pass through that event horizon called art. No amount of schooling is going to change that.
I used to live in Marin County. I used to live in New York City. I used to live in Europe. I used to live in Vermont. Now I travel and while I travel I write. Intending to complete a trilogy on the Divine Feminine, I'm working on HYPATIA'S CAT about the numinous and gifted Hypatia of Alexandria who lived from 370 CE to 415 CE. It will be a portrait of a woman I shall contend is the best and last proponent of the true message of Mary Magdalene and Jesus.
To conclude the trilogy I began with THE SECRET MAGDALENE, I realize
I have not finished with the
life of Mary Magdalene, that I have merely presented the prelude to her
story by concentrating on her role in the life and death of Jesus. My third and last book on the Divine Feminine is called
THE WOMAN WHO KNEW THE ALL—
a novel of the Magdalene after Jesus.
In this third book, Mary Magdalene comes fully into her own as a woman
and as an enlightened being.