Thank you so much for taking the time to read a little about me …
I’m a cradle Catholic who married the man of my dreams (I literally had a dream about him 3 weeks before we met) when I was 24. We’ve now been married over 20 years and I fall more in love with him every day. We’ve had our ups and downs, but we’re blessed and so grateful to be where we are.
A week after my husband and I married; we moved from Florida to Mississippi so I could get my PhD in Clinical Psychology. For the next five years my brain was overflowing with psychology. I loved it. It was challenging and fascinating. It is still challenging and fascinating, and I still love it—though now I love it from afar. God had other plans and His plans are always better!
After getting my doctorate and moving back to Florida the idea of writing a novel entered my mind. We did not have kids at the time, which meant I had lots of free time (though I didn’t realize that at the time) and so I started writing. It took me several years, but I finished writing my first novel in 2012. I can proudly say that it is not good! But it allowed me to begin learning about the craft of writing.
We now have three beautiful kids – each brought to us through the gift of adoption (God’s plan is always better). Our boys are eighteen months apart and came to us as toddlers. Sometime before our second son came home, the characters of Jonah and Bria entered my mind. But they soon disappeared as my mind filled with my two energetic preschoolers and my fairly intense trauma-focused work at a non-profit. As the months continued and being the mom of two active boys became less overwhelming, Bria and Jonah came back. I tried to ignore them and for a while it worked, but as the months went by, they went from popping in every now and then to never leaving. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t ignore them. Through prayer, it became obvious that theirs was a story I needed to tell. I worked through the self-doubt (there was a lot of that!!!) and began writing during Lent of 2015. The Light is the result.
I have been blessed to write 8 more novels since that time and even more blessed to add a beautiful baby girl to our family. She has rounded out our family in the most perfect way and it turns out an 11-year gap between kids is the perfect spacing 😊 God’s timing is always perfect!
I’m so grateful to each of my readers. Thank you for the kind words you email me and the lovely reviews you leave me. Thank you most of all for your prayers! I am grateful that God chose me to tell the stories I’ve been blessed to tell and create the characters I’ve been able to create.
As one of my favorite Saint friends said, “Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.” St. John Paul II certainly knew what he was talking about.
Happy Reading!
Jacqueline