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I am a stay at home mother of two, currently residing in Moreno Valley, California continues to work on my little "work in progress" its the first book of what I hope to be a small series called "The Gatekeeper Chronicles".

I was born in Westminster, California in 1982, where I acquired my first inspirations of becoming a fictional story writer as a young child. It was after attending a school assemble at Mabel Carver Elementary School, in Stanton, California. It was there that I was introduced to a children's performance company called "The Imagination Machine", and in which I later strived to write a short story that would one year be preformed by the yearly visits of the performing company. Two years later I had finally achieved my childhood goal and wrote a short story that was personally selected and performed on stage by the performing company during the following year school assembly. I was later awarded for for my written work, and from then continued to write, whenever the chance was given.

After moving with my parents to Menifee, California, some years later, I attend Paloma Valley High School, and later joined the school newspaper committee during my junior and senior year; along with signing up to become a local TV News reporter for a local News Station located in Riverside, California, - "R.C.N. TV News" directed by Michael Perry.

Still, I longed to become a fictional author one day, and so I continued writing through poetry, and other short stories. It was in year 2000 that I would finally become published in two books at the age of seventeen, for a poem I wrote called "Freed". This poem was published in two books "Live Poets Society of NJ - American High School Poets Regional Winners 2000"; and also in "From the Mountain Top" published in the summer of 2000.

Later I attended a creative writing course at the community college of Mt. San Jacinto, in Menifee, California. I received my first bit of inspiration to write the prelude, and introductory chapter to my current writings of "The Gatekeeper Chronicles".