It was the first day of a much-hyped international movie shoot and my first shoot in a foreign country. I was twenty-three and I had arrived in South America two days earlier, after more than fourteen hours of flying. Jet lag, stress and lack of sleep had me on edge. We were shooting at an […]

The day after my agent told me a publisher wanted to publish my first book, my mother unexpectedly passed away.  I fell from the highest of highs to the lowest low.  These two events are inextricably tied together in my heart, and I can never think about achieving my dream of becoming an author without the sad […]