CAMELOT FANTASIES

Welcome to Camelot.

Hi.. This is me!

I love Zumba, yoga, watercolor painting, and diy projects. I put all new window in my house all by myself...except for a little help when my husband lifted for me.

I grew up in Vermont with a lot of left-brained siblings. They didn't get my made-up friends. “Tell her no one’s here, Mother."

As a kid, I worked in a library. I went to college to be a classical clarinetist and recording studio engineer. I worked repairing electronics for years but now I architect software programs.

I've always had stories running in my head. Now I write them down.

I live in Bergen County, NJ with my life-long hero and our two cats. My two successful daughters are grown but ever supportive. They say I inspire them to try new things. One just bought a bar, the other lives in Rome.

I went to my first Renaissance Street Fair. Pretty Funny. Check it out

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ANON.. To a prolog of book 2!

What happens when a young woman woos a knight with a witch's poppy poison?

SNEAK PEAK of Book 2... You may need smelling salts

You are a very talented person, I must say. I'm not very practical & can sing but never got the chance to learn an instrument.

It's o.k. Thank you very much for your advise.

A few weeks ago I read and reviewed a book by a woman, about my age, who lives with Bipolar. We exchanged a few emails. The weekend before I tweeted to a woman who has been a ‘mum’ to a child who has grown into the body of a man, but with the mind of a toddler.

These are remarkable heroines with incredible strength and I am blessed to have their lives intersect with mine, even so briefly. I am changed just by knowing them.

Everyone knows that likes attract so I humbly pondered how I got here.

Long ago, I remember my first foray into goal-setting. I had chastised a younger worker for his shoddy work on the repair of a video tape machine. My boss figured I needed a few lessons in how to deal with people and sent me off to a Dale Carnegie course. About the same time, the company decided we needed to be more productive, and a few of us headed off to NYC for a course in Time Management.

Of course, they sent me home with brochures to buy tapes, (it was the eighties), and more self-help tapes. I gobbled everything down because I was starving. I was thirty, stuck in a job I hated, had two young kids, a mortgage, and no way out. I cried a lot.

It took a lot of hard work to change my thoughts but I did. After my thoughts changed, my life changed, and here I am.

Where am I? Content. Not complacent, by any means, but most of the time, pretty happy.

When I need to ‘pay it forward,’ I write about strong women, facing adversity. A romance is the perfect place to do it. If thoughts become reality, (and I believe they do), then my life’s goal is to empower women as they imagine themselves as my heroines.

That makes me happy.

I work out almost every day... My favorite workout?