About M.L.

I’m assuming if you’ve arrived at this page it’s because you’ve already read the nutshell version of my bio in the sidebar at the right and you’re seeking more info.  If so, just remember you asked for it!

Here’s the more detailed version…

I’m a woman of…let’s just say a certain age. Old enough to have experienced a fair amount of life, and young enough to still think I can do everything now that I did in my twenties. *g*

I live in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with my hunky physicist husband, two teenage boys, two dogs, three cats, and dozens of fish.

I love ink–as in tattoos. I have 9 right now. The back piece on the right is one of my faves…it’s based on a Celtic design by Welsh artist Jen Delyth.

When I’m not writing or running my teenagers around, my next love is wheelthrowing, so you can usually find me in the pottery studio two or three times a week. I’ve been throwing for three years now and I’m completely addicted. I find it amazingly meditative.

I do all my writing on a MacBook Air that travels around the house and, in warm weather, outside with me. In the summer my favorite place to write is on the swing on my deck surrounded by ponderosa pines and aspen trees.

In the winter, and often well into the spring, the outside writing forays aren’t usually an option, since the deck is often buried under several feet of snow, as you can see from the pic to the right. It’s not unusual for us to have snow like this well into April. Which means from October through about May I mostly work in my office (below). Note the cute fuzzy dog on the floor and the snow outside the window.

I’ve been writing professionally for about sixteen years. I started off writing non-fiction articles, and then progressed to fiction. The first story I ever wrote and had published was a young adult novel. Actually, I wrote two. Then I moved to romantic suspense, then to erotic romance, and then to gay romantic fiction where I’ve been very happily making a living since 2006. Of all the genres I’ve written in, gay m/m romance is, hands down, my favorite. Since that first YA novel I’ve had over two dozen novellas and novels published (and a handful of short stories), with a half-dozen more in the works over the next couple of years. I never run out of story ideas, only out of time to write them all!

If you’d like to know more about what makes me tick, read blurbs and excerpts of my stories, and see what’s available now and what’s coming soon, then I invite you to browse around my website and see what you can see!

Still need more? Okay…

Pics of my furballs:

From left to right: Petal, Beanie Baby, and Silverstar. Beanie’s a peke-poo. She’s sweet as pie to our family, but protects her mama (that would be me ) with vicious determination if a stranger comes in the house. She’s my baby, through and through. The kitties are sister and brother–we rescued them in October 2009 when they were wee little kits about eight weeks old. My sister has their two brothers that we rescued at the same time.

My darling Matthias (whom I call Matts). We rescued him from a shelter in the summer of ’05. He was approximately 4-6 years old when we adopted him, and is an absolute lovey sweetheart. He sleeps with my older son, or on top of our feet in our bed.

This is Molly. She’s a rescued English Setter who’s absolutely beautiful and is my husband’s girl. She’s pretty much always attached to him at the hip and is right with him wherever he goes and cries if he leaves her.