THE SHORT:

• Former Emmy-Award-Winning Photojournalist for NBC Los Angeles, now moving into the freelance world of videography, photography, and writing.
• Novelist featuring women who love things that go VROOM!
• And full-blown Motor Doll, who is happiest behind the wheel of her ’48 Ford, or blazing across the desert on a motorcycle.

NEWS CAREER:

When I was thirteen I got my first camera and have been seeing life through a viewfinder ever since. In 1994, I found my profession as a television News Photojournalist for NBC, first in San Luis Obispo CA, then onto Los Angeles. Over my career, I met so many inspirational people, went around the world, and did things I could never have imagined, like leaning out the back of a Chinook helicopter with the National Guard, or sitting down with a First Lady for a one-on-one interview, or spending a month in Athens and Sydney and Salt Lake City for the Olympic games, or being in St. Peters Square during the Papal Conclave.

After twenty-four years in the news business,  I’m branching out to more creative storytelling, focusing on the positive.

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OUTSIDE OF NEWS:

• Principal photographer on several episodes of the half-hour weekly show Travel Cafe, shooting in Fiji, Hong Kong, and Kauai, to name a few.
• DP on a documentary featuring nationally renowned artist, Milford Zornes—one of the coolest human beings I’ve ever met. Man. I hope to be like him when I’m 90.
• Cameraman for Juris Productions, shooting documentary-style videos for legal cases.

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WRITING:

Besides old cars and motorcycles and photography, I love to write. At heart, I am a Storyteller.

In that realm, I’ve had two short stories published: one about a girl who dreams of being a fish, and another about a girl who believes she’s the reincarnated soul of a Shitzu. Hmmm. Kind of sensing a theme. Anyway, the dog story, HAPPY GIRL, was chosen as the publication’s feature story.

I’ve completed seven novels, with more in various states of completion.

My debut novel MOTOR DOLLS , a girl-powered adventure following two Motor Dolls in search of life’s passion, sold out the first run. Subscribe for printing updates.

My agent Mary C. Moore of the Kimberley Cameron & Associates Agency is currently shopping my latest two novels, one, a 1935 road-trip with a girl and a fabulous Buick, the other, a 1952 Gypsy Tour with twenty-two-year-old Greet and her 1936 Harley Davidson.

 THE INSPIRATION:

I love old stuff, especially anything automotive. It’s hard to explain to those who do black-flips for the latest shiny new thing, why I’d rather have the rusty, old, and worn. It’s a love of history and craftsmanship, coupled with the romantic idealism of something surviving for decades, centuries even. Old things carry a history of their prior life–and yeah, I know you can argue a thing can’t live, but every time I get behind the wheel of my ’48 Ford, Bondorella, her past sings to me through every creak and rumble and bump.

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