ABOUT ME

Just in case you were wondering ... here is a bit about myself!

I like to describe myself as a hard-working romance author living and loving life in Providence, RI as well as at mt tiny seaside summer cottage on Rhode Island's gorgeous Narragansett Bay. 

Besides being an author, I am a fairly decent jazz guitarist and songwriter (while I was attending college at Emerson, I dated a guy who was studying at Boston's Berklee College of Music and he showed me a thing or two -- about the guitar, I mean! -- and I was hooked.)

Well, within a few years -- you know, those mid-20s years when you haven't yet figured your life out -- I was learning standards, songwriting, and even did a few club and coffee shop gigs in and around Boston. It was fun for a while but such a hard life (and I wasn't even doing it a lot!) so I eventually dropped it and, shortly thereafter, headed back to Little Rhody where I grew up and settled in Providence.

Then, in very quick succession: love, marriage, divorce, love, marriage, happiness, and indulging fully in my lifelong passion of writing ... primarily about passion, actually. I would say my day is pretty well divided between writing at home and writing / observing life at nearby coffee shops and tea houses.

And I still play my guitar ... but nowadays just for me; I will often unwind after a day at the computer with my husband ("My own personal Prince Charming"), my utterly adorable Maltese ("My four-legged Prince Charming"), my battle-worn Gibson guitar, and an hour of blues licks or some such thing -- goes great with a cup of (of course) Irish breakfast tea ... by this time of day, probably my fifth or sixth.

I'm still working out the exact proportions that I would like each facet of my life to have ... sort of my own pie-chart, I guess you could say. Always tweaking that thing. But though I my not have figured out the "perfect" balance of work/fun/relationships/deep stuff yet, I am quite happy with all of it.

And I am very happy with my writing! This is definitely why I was put on this planet and I am quite certain that I will be in it for the long haul.  I hope that you will take some of that journey with me!

Maggie
(sitting at a nearby Panera, just me and my tea!)