Five Fun Facts

I’ve wanted to write a book about a life coach for a long time. I was originally going to have my heroine hire one in Between the Sheets, but my very wise editor suggested I save the idea for another book.  So I did.  How to Score is the result.

1. I used to work in marketing for the Oklahoma Tourism Department, where I edited forty different brochures extolling the state as a vacation destination. I think that’s when I started my fiction writing career. (Just kidding!)

2. Seriously, Oklahoma is a pretty fascinating place. Tulsa’s art deco architecture is among the finest in the world.  That’s why I set my book, How to Score, there, and made my heroine the curator at an art deco museum.

3. My Oklahoma tourism job involved taking journalists around the state and showing them the sites.  I once spent days driving a Japanese film crew through the countryside, looking for corn as high as an elephant’s eye, wind sweeping across the plains, and other things to illustrate the song “Oklahoma!”  

4. The heroine of How to Score, Sammi Matthews, is a klutz.  So am I-- but unlike Sammi, I tend to only injure myself.   Klutziness runs in my family.  When it strikes, we blame the Roscoe gene.

5. The idea for the accordian-playing rapper came to me when my husband and I were browsing through an antique shop.  We came across an accordian for sale and started making absurd suggestions to each other about how we could use it.  Voila-- Horace was born!