I write both women’s and young adult fiction. My debut young adult novel, The Pull of Gravity, will be released spring 2011 from Frances Foster Books / Farrar Straus Giroux.

The Pull of Gravity follows teenagers Nick and Jaycee as they set out on a secret weekend mission to keep a promise to a dying friend. But will they achieve what they set out for, or merely learn the beauty of Steinbeck, the truth about plans, and a few crappy facts about gravity?

I have written since the time I was little. Mostly, poems and short stories through college. Then, I went to law school and, for over a decade, replaced all that creative writing with legal briefs. But after my sons were born, I decided to return to my first love. I like to think my novels are accessible, lyrical (somewhat literary) fiction – and, my young adult stories, an homage to the character-driven fiction I loved as a child (anything by E.L. Konigsburg, Paul Zindel, Judy Blume, and the amazing Madeleine L’Engle…). The Pull of Gravity has a special “secret” nod to the first novel I couldn’t put down – Don't Take Teddy, by Babbis Friis-Baastad. To this day, I remember the feeling of frantically turning pages to find out if the brothers would be okay. If any of you ever read that book, please send me an email, and we can be instant BFF's.

My first piece of women’s fiction, The Jetty, was a Top Semifinalist in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and a revised version will soon be making rounds to publishers. My second novel, tentatively titled Swim Back to Me, is also currently making the rounds. And, my next two YA novels are in the works. So, please check back here often for excerpts and updates.

I live and write on Long Island with my two amazing boys, my handsome, smart husband who sings, and two very "enthusiastic" cockatiels, Taha and Bobo (who are screeching to me now to be included, way loud from the other room). When I’m not writing, I’m still a practicing family law attorney/mediator, and when I’m not doing that, I’m swimming, or reading in my hammock in the sun.