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A writer is basically a storyteller, and all my life I've loved hearing people's stories and telling them. (With a little embellishment, of course.) They seem to rest in a special place in my mind, and whenever I have a peaceful moment they drift into my consciousness. Originally from Michigan, I landed in Syracuse, New York, after attending Syracuse University. I worked as a reporter for several years before becoming the corporate marketing director of The Pyramid Companies for whom I opened shopping malls throughout the Northeast. I drew from this highly charged environment to write my 2nd novel, WINDFALL. The whole time I was racing from town to town opening malls, I lived on a hundred-acre farm outside the small village of Cazenovia, NY, where I raised my two children, Jessica and David. I tried to inject the unique and wonderful flavor of the people of this small farming community into the characters in SHADOWS IN THE GRASS, my first novel. I'm always thrilled when people say my books are character driven, because that's where I always start. I have to know my characters, who of course, are always intriguing, befoe I put them in harms way...or get them romantically involved. |
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BIOGRAPHY |
The women in my novels are their own heroes because that's what I witnessed as I worked my way up the corporate ladder. We've come a long way since then. I remember when I was on the road opening malls in the 70s. I didn't dare tell anyone I had two kids. Years later, no one seemed to be concerned when a corporate executive from one of the major chains walked into my mall office six months pregnant. One cold, hard winter's day in 1996, a headhunter called me. It was ten degrees in Upstate, NY, and I was overspent on my mall snow removal budget and it was only January. I glanced at the USA Today map and saw it was seventy degrees in Myrtle Beach and jumped at the offer to manage the Myrtle Beach Factory Stores. My third novel, Pelican Watch, reflects my warm feelings for the South and the wonderful people I've come to know in Pawleys Island and Murrells Inlet. I am a very active real estate agent specializing in oceanfront condominiums and homes. This is a profession that goes well with writing. I wake every morning at four and write until eight when I head for the office. I take my disk with me and write on and off throughout the day. |
The Blue Ridge Series I have owned a place in the mountains since 2004 and have centered my fourth, fifth and sixth novels: IN THE SHADOWS OF CHIMNEY ROCK, THE WIND IN THE WOODS and RENDER UNTO THE VALLEY around Western North Carolina's Hickory Nut Gorge and the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains. They are the first in my Blue Ridge Series. I have tried to write with empathy about the universal desire to hold onto ones land and heritage against the forces that are changing the places we love. It is my hope that this series will not only entertain people and create a fascinating mosaic of the history of the area, but paint a broad picture of the pressures on the Southern Blue Ridge and those who are working to preserve it. The third book in the series will be published in January 2012 and centers around a two-hundred-acre mountain farm nestled at the edge of the Hickory Nut Gorge in Fairview. It will explore the loves and conflicts of a family steeped in mountain history while being pulled apart by the tides of change. MORE ABOUT ROSE'S INTEREST IN SAVING THE MOUNTAINS FROM OVER-DEVELOPMENT |