Who.

After graduating from George Washington University with a B.A. in American Literature and Political Science, I pursued a career in the marketing field, holding executive positions in marketing communications and sales at various magazine publishing companies and content marketing agencies. I’m blessed with two daughters and two stepdaughters living in four different cities—Brooklyn, Nashville, Madison, Seattle)—a wonderful husband, Lew McCreary.

What.

I spent every summer of my youth in the Catskills resort area. My dad was the Activities Director and nightclub emcee (and entertainer/singer) at The Hotel Brickman in South Fallsburg, NY. I knew I wanted to write a story in this setting, but the question became… what story/what era… A coming of age? A romance? A memoir? Then, in 2017, I came across an article about a woman (a coffee shop waitress at one of the hotels) who disappeared from the area in the mid-70s and was found forty years later in an Alzheimer’s facility (in Massachusetts) through the fluke of a social security number search by a detective. She was unable to tell the detective what had happened to her in the intervening years. That was my eureka moment. I was intrigued by the idea of fictionalizing this woman’s life—filling in the forty-year gap between disappearing and being found. Throw in a father-daughter detective team—some murder and mayhem— and I knew I had my story. 

Where.

I live in Hull, Massachusetts, a peninsula just south of Boston. In its heyday, Paragon Park, was the main attraction. Today, people flock to Nantasket Beach to surf, sunbathe, and take a spin on the historic Paragon Carousel.

In the spring and fall, Nantucket Island is my home away from home. My husband spent summers there as a kid and introduced me this wonderful paradise.