Bev was born in Germany, on Canadian soil. How or why they shipped mud overseas is something she never did quite understand.

In her early years, Bev loved to dabble at writing more than anything else building quite a vast supply of work. But, when she moved away from home, she just threw out everything. Something she still regrets to this day. "There was some pretty good teenage angst in those pages," she says jokingly.

After she married, there was little time for such a selfish hobby which took a back seat to raising a family and running a computer business.

But in 1994 when a tongue 'n cheek column about the joys of call waiting sold with relative ease, the dream to be a writer could be stilled no longer. She sold a few articles that year and then decided fiction was still her first love.

So, she started a novel.  By 1998 she had written several books ... if you counted all the half-finished and multi-rewritten manuscripts. Frustration nearly drowned her writing career.  Then, in January of 1999 she took the Book In A Week challenge. And her first completed book was born. Doubting Thomas was written in three days!

The success of finally completing an entire mansucript helped build Bev's confidence and in May, of that same year, she wrote another full book in a week. Though neither manuscripts found homes and she returned to work full time, she kept writing.

Her first novella sold on proposal, as did the second one. Both anthologies will be in stores in 2003. The second book written in May of 1999 has also been bought and will be available June 2004.

As a person who loves learning, Bev finds writing the perfect job. Her advice, if you're a beginner? Read, read, read, read, then write, write, write, write. There are lots of resources and information on the links page, so why not click over there and see what you can find?



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