Once upon a time there was a little girl named Gina whose mother cut her bangs cruelly short. Gina loved books. She especially loved her daddy reading them to her, but it wasn't long before she was reading books on her own. Then one BIG day, the clouds parted, lightning struck, and Gina realized she could make her own books.

Appropriating her mother's Royal typewriter, she began to write a series of "Joey Stories," featuring her rascal brother who did bad things and got into trouble. Naturally his older, wiser sister Gina was the only one who could rescue him. It was a case of art imitating life, and Gina was hooked.

As Gina grew up into the adult world, she realized that people were nuts. No sooner had she finagled her first rite-of-passage bra, when women everywhere began burning theirs! Protestors picketed, Lucy floated in the sky with diamonds, and Gina was voted the zaniest member of her 8th grade class even though she was the only sane member of the bunch.

Much to her mother's surprise, Gina survived adolescence, eventually finding her way to UCLA and the study of European History, a major which involved the acquisition of many (expensive) books. Unfortunately, Gina soon discovered that historians often do not make good writers. And, instead of studying hairstyles in Elizabethan England, Gina was subjected to long boring lectures on open field farming during the middle ages.

Escaping academia without looking back, she found a job in public broadcasting, where she works to this day, having become a card carrying member of the Directors Guild of America--but she gets ahead of herself here. Working alongside Big Bird and Elmo, she somehow found time to get married and have two children whose bangs she never cut too short and who loved it when she read stories to them.

Then one day she found herself at a Romantic Times Booklovers Convention. She had a hair moment with the Topaz man, oogled Fabio (well you would too), and met many writers, including one who connected her to the Orange County Chapter of the Romance Writers of America where she found other women who not only owned too many books but also had stories demanding to be told.

Now in good company, Gina sat down to write The Raven's Revenge. She emerged from a writer's trance several years later with a complete manuscript that became a finalist in the Romantic Times/Dorchester Publishing American Title II contest, and survived into fourth round.

In March of 2007 she received the good news that this book had been accepted for publication by The Wild Rose Press. It came out as an ebook on December 7, and will be available in paperback on June 6, 2008. She realizes it is odd, although appropriate, for a historical to have its release dates tied in to two of the biggest events in WWII, notably Pearl Harbor Day and the Battle of Normandy.

Gina is busily working away on her next book, a young adult contemporary with fantasy elements.