I was born in South Jersey, the land of Silk City diners, nuclear plants, corn fields and the Jersey Devil. My youth was spent reading voraciously, everything from the Trixie Belden series to my Aunt Mary Ellen's steamy bodice ripping novels to anything in the stack of books my dad brought home from the library every Saturday, which got me hooked on the novels of Robert Ludlum and Donald Westlake. After earning a degree in Marketing at Auburn University, I spent the next five years in the business world, which is a polite way of saying that I had eleven jobs in a five year period, including door to door sales, skip tracing people who didn't want to be found, repossessing cars and collecting on defaulted student loans. During this five-year period, I did an in-depth study of abnormal psychology and sociopathic behavior - and then I divorced him. I didn't have enough money for therapy, so I decided to go to medical school where I earned a degree as a doctor or podiatric medicine. My surgical residency in Buffalo, New York introduced me to a new world of human behavior, including junkies, addicts, criminals, punks, S&M beauty queens and angry housewives with ice picks. Upon graduation, I moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. I've been in practice since 2000 and I've made Phoenix magazine's 'Top Doc' list in 2010 and 2014. I am passionate about podiatry and helping people who suffer with foot pain. I write the blog 'Podiatry Shoe Review', which is dedicated to helping people find good-looking shoes that are good for your feet and are pathology specific. My screenplay OH BROTHER won the Phoenix Film Festival screenwriting competition in 2005 and was optioned by Gold Circle Films in 2008. GUNNING FOR ANGELS is my fiction debut and it is the first of a trilogy. Why do I write? I know it sounds corny, but my greatest hope is that I can make your life more pleasurable, if even for several hours, with a good story. I love a good story.