Welcome to my webpage! I hope you will enjoy The Four Queens of the Buttonbush Museum. I spent seven years writing the book, along with doing a lot of other things, of course. I rewrote the book many times and I probably took out more sections than I left in it. In the end, I hope you find it a fun, playful look at four determined women who have a singular purpose but no real plan to achieve it.

I get asked by many people if any of the novel is real. I answer by saying the book was inspired by my volunteer work and board membership at my local history museum and by other places where I've volunteered. But there was a time when four women board members, myself included, ran the museum when the executive director left. That happened at least twice and it was an arduous task running a museum on a volunteer basis. But we gave it our all. We did start to call ourselves the Queens, but we were anything but royal! It was a fun, challenging time and the experience gave me loads of inspiration for my book. But there are no real characters in the book, no factual recounting of events. I think all authors use their personal lives for inspiration, but there are huge exaggerations, extrapolations and embellishments that make the story more exciting and interesting.