During her senior year at college, a friend of Cindy’s mother introduced her to a young man who had attended the same high school she had seven years before she did. Not only had they lived on the same street as children, but he delivered her parents’ newspapers, his mother taught her Sunday school class, and Cindy went to school with his youngest brother. She and Tom married a year later and celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary by making a major life change when they moved from Maryland to Kansas.

Moving allowed Cindy to retire from library work to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. She’s the Contributing Editor of Pirates and Privateers, a maritime history column, at Suite101.com. She describes her books as historical novels intertwined with love stories. In addition to reviewing books for Historical Novels Review, Ivy Quill Reviews, Appraisal, and The Book Report, she is an editor and copyeditor for Wings Press, Ltd. and runs her own critique service for other authors.

Cindy is the oldest of four sisters, whom her mother fondly refers to as her “Little Women.” She graduated from Towson University and received a Master’s Degree in Library Science from the University of Maryland. She is a member of Electronically Published Internet Connection, The Historical Novel Society, Dalriada, the Kansas Authors Club, Association of Electronically Published Romance Authors, and The Laffite Society. She loves to read. Her favorite authors include Stuart Woods, Clive Cussler, Leon Uris, Nigel Tranter, and LaVyrle Spencer. She’s a fan of professional bull riding, country music, Celtic music, Teddy bears, and Scottish castles and cattle.