About
History-based fiction: The English Rendition, The Baldwin Portolano (finalist San Diego book awards 2016), and Jefferson’s Chef - James Hemings: from slavery to freedom. Her adaptations of Jefferson’s Chef were awarded Finalist in the Southern California Screenplay Competition and Semi-Finalist in the ScreenCraft TV Pilot contest in 2021.
Contemporary fiction: The Paris Draft, is contemporary woman’s fiction about writer’s block, reversible dementia, and love.
Reference: She was honored when her dictionary of almost 10,000 military terms, VIETNAM: The War Zone Dictionary, in their own words, was praised by a member of the Combat Photographers Association.
Member of the Historical Novel Society (UK), Women’s Fiction Writers Association (USA), and Publishers and Writers - San Diego (CA). She is actively researching her next project.
Featured Work
Jefferson's Chef: James Hemings - from Slavery to Freedom
Before he was President, Thomas Jefferson was sent to Paris and takes his enslaved house servant, James Hemings, with him to train as a French Chef, but James discovers life as a free man in Paris. When his sister, Sally Hemings, arrives as the servant for Jefferson’s daughters, James is torn between protecting his family or his own freedom. Deeply researched and historically accurate in both culinary and political history, it explores the timeless issues of race, identity, and loyalty.
