In 1985, I left my career as a university professor and administrator and began working fulltime as a novelist and freelance writer. For the past 16 years, I've written the China Bayles herbal mysteries, and for the past five, a series of historical fantasies called The Cottage Tales, featuring Beatrix Potter. With my husband, Bill Albert, writing as Robin Paige, I coauthored a dozen historical mysteries set in Victorian-Edwardian England and over sixty books for young readers. I have also edited two anthologies for the Story Circle Network: With Courage and Common Sense (2004) and What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest (2007).
I've also written nonfiction. In 1992, I published Work of Her Own, a study of women who left their careers, and in 1997, Writing From Life: Telling Your Soul's Story, for women memoirists. That book led to the founding of the Story Circle Network, which encourages women to write about their lives. I helped to create the first edition of the Story Circle Book Review website and am delighted to be involved in its relaunch. You can find out more about my work at my website and get a look into the life of a working writer by reading my blog. Bill and I have lived in the Texas Hill Country for over twenty years, with a varying assortment of cows, sheep, geese, ducks, chickens, pigs, dogs, and cats.
