Professionally I am a Child and Youth Worker I also offer informal counselling services to children/youth/families in addition, I am studying part-time at Ryerson University and hope to get my CYC Bachelors of Arts Degree and hope to rejoin sometime this year (post stress of quarantine) Canadian Authors Association https://canadianauthors.org/toronto/ this helps writers appear professional when querying.
As the saying goes this is me in a nutshell, bio's may be revised from time to time as things occur (hoping an agent/ publishing contract) but the core of who I am is improving who I am each day, and helping people.
Now why did I chose to pursue writing: I have always wanted to pursue a full-time career as an author
and finally pushed aside my doubts and during the summer of 2010 I began the rough draft of my first Young Adult novel Cove Awakening.
This book was written when the popularity of Twilight occurred I wasn't aiming to garner the same rarity the author had of becoming immensely successful after publishing her first series but more so I developed confidence to begin writing.
This book was written when the popularity of Twilight occurred I wasn't aiming to garner the same rarity the author had of becoming immensely successful after publishing her first series but more so I developed confidence to begin writing.
http://annerice.com/Bookshelf-AllBooksInOrder.html captivates my imagination, she created a world of vampires in which the vampires
appeared as if they could be in our society, they became real because the
author made them real to its readers., I have also read numerous authors that write YA/ adult paranormal romance
Sadly, I made the mistake as some budding
writers, paying tremendous amounts of money to edit my first novel Cove Awakening, which essentially was not ready not even for an editor (I live and learned).
Naturally I received numerous rejections, however few agents rather than giving me a form rejection took time to offer me a brief critique, such as I was a great story teller but they couldn’t experience understanding the story because of the issues with editing, plot, formatting, and some requested for me to give the book a significant rewrite and resend, my former editor who is now a rock star associate agent at https://www.theseymouragency.com/About-Us.html offered me a lengthy assessment of Cove Awakening I decided the best thing to do was put it away for a bit and maybe I will look at it with fresh eyes so to speak. (That day has not come yet)
