Author's Bio

Horace Walpole once said, "Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel." My goal as a writer is to have my words resonate in the hearts of both.

I’m fascinated by the long view of what makes us human--those survival related things we do each day and night, distinguishing us from the beasts of nature, yet keeping us tied to them. Anthropologists say we've been on the Blue Planet for over 4 million years. That's 80,000 lifetimes. And guess how many we've spent in caves? All but the last 200. It explains a lot. That we still carry around "cave thinking.” Things like aggression, hunger, lust and awe. Behaviors we try to justify in our technological world. I‘m charmed we’re such inventors but perplexed why we remain lower than the angels.

I’ve written in a variety of print genre: a historical novel, short stories, poetry, and articles for journals, both travel and academic. Now in digital format writing popular fiction has become an added passion. The e-book phenomenon I began with my novel "The Tattooed Princess" and that love has expanded now after twenty-some novels into screenwriting. I hope you enjoy my work and pass that joy onto others.

The name "Califia" is just one extension of who I am. For those of you who are interested, she was a literary character from a Medieval Spanish romance--created in the 16th century and featured as an "Amazon queen." Califia was supposed to have ruled an island somewhere on the uncharted side of the "terrestrial paradise" (the New World). The early explorers knew her story well and were lustfully attracted to her as a muse. They dreamed of her as they sailed across the seas. And that is why they put her name on the first western maps of the unknown world: "California"--Latin for "Califia's land." It’s the place where I was born. I presently live in a small Greek town on the Aegean Sea. It's a land I’ve only begun to explore and now home to my muse of writing.