I am having a book signing at Maryville University on September 28 (Friday) night. The book signing is open to the public. I will be promoting my new book "Greener Pastures" that was just released this week and I will have my other two novels "Preconceived Notions" (released March 2007) and "Wishing" (released June 2007) on hand to purchase. The Author Signing's Location is Donius University Center (outside the bookstore) at Maryville University (across the street from St. Lukes Hospital) on September 28th 2007 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. I graduated from Maryville University with a BS in Biology in 1996.

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"Greener Pastures" synopsis: Roads can be rocky or paved….but don’t judge a path by its surface. For some roads lead to loneliness and others to "Greener Pastures." Tracy lives in what people call a mansion, but the cold marble symbolizes her life—frigid and lonely. Her husband is always away on business trips and ‘working late.’ She is left with her two girls—a preschooler and a teenager. On her daughter’s thirteenth birthday, they make plans to stay at the Lazy ‘R’ ranch. Riding horses and cooking campfire éclairs is on the menu. Her husband never shows up like he promised and this leaves her and her children in the care of a six-foot four rancher who has eyes the color of the clouds before a tornado. His calloused hard working hands are gentle and caring. His baggy overalls have charm. The old farm gravel road their black Mercedes turned down is symbolic of where her life begins to take her. The ups and downs are difficult, but if you ride them out---you might come out dirty but find the most beautiful place in the world. Tracy discovers that her husband isn’t always where he says he is and that love sometimes is found in Greener Pastures.

"Wishing" synopsis: Elizabeth lost her husband suddenly of a heart attack playing basketball. She was left pregnant and caring for her two little girls. Her life once filled with ‘table for four’ is now ‘table for three.’ Those words are difficult to swallow. Everywhere she looks she sees remnants of her old life—Tony’s dirty coffee cup on the counter, his briefcase still sitting in the doorway and his dirty laundry exactly where he left it before he died. Elizabeth can’t bring herself to let go of her husband. Her daughters on the other hand are yearning for a father figure.

One shiny penny tossed into a fountain wishing for a daddy sends the wheels of fate in motion. Destiny answers by having Dr. David Michael coming to the rescue as her Lamaze coach. A relationship starts to build. However, Elizabeth isn’t so sure she is ready to let go of the past and embrace her new future.

"Preconceived Notions" synopsis: Tiffany, a single mother in a small town, is trying to make ends meet. Everyone has an opinion of her; however, there is more to her than what they see…or think they see. The town’s gossip is that she got pregnant from some city boy she met at a nightclub and is scavenging off her poor widowed mother. Women talk about her. Men gawk at her. She isn’t perfect, but some of their "preconceived notions" are wrong.

A bike accident sends the wheels of fate spinning and brings her face to face with a six-foot-five man with eyes the color of the town’s lake. Marcus helps Tiffany and her daughter home and cooks them a meal fitting for a fancy restaurant in the city. They keep meeting and the fire burning between them is only appropriate since she is the famous "Firegirl."