“You’d be surprised what people will say to an interested stranger.”
My Story
Until I was six years old, my family lived in Jakarta, Indonesia; then we moved back to Canada.
Both places helped form my love of languages and cultures (meaning I can speak fluent English and French, with some broken Bahasa Indonesian—just enough to ask for more food).
So from the beginning, I learned how to stand in someone else’s shoes and ground myself between their world and my own. Different languages, different foods, different customs: they all still make me feel alive and excited to meet new people and learn about their lives.
Before becoming a ghostwriter, I spent five years as a French immersion teacher. I love teaching people how to access a whole new world through language and human connection—to conjure up the exact word that describes the feeling of landing your first client, the taste of a particularly rich victory, or the details of a vivid childhood memory.
With my students, I’d create everyday experiences to help uncover nuances and immerse them in French-Canadian culture, not just the language.
As a ghostwriter for Scribe Media, one of the leading hybrid publishers, I partnered with CEOs and top industry leaders to help them tell their stories in ways that transformed their readers’ lives.
Since 2008, I’ve written four of my own books, ghostwritten more than seventy books, and coached and mentored hundreds of authors.
At the most basic level, I work with thought leaders and industry experts who want to write a book. My gift is capturing their genius on the page, and my team and I understand exactly where they are in their writing process so we can bring out the best in them.
When we’re done, they have a professionally published book that opens new doors and elevates their business in even more ways than they hoped for.
But what also occurs is they step into their identity as an author.
It’s the most satisfying part of the whole process.
Happens. Every. Time.
My superpower is managing the emotions involved in this journey, but never at the expense of finishing your book.
I coach and mentor you to tell your authentic story—the one you’ve been too afraid to share. I support you through the pivotal moments when you’re unsure about how much to reveal to your reader. Sometimes, a project turns into a different book than the one you thought we’d write together.
No matter what, you’ll feel like an author by the time you’re holding your book in your hot little hands, feeling awed by the cover—because you will be an author.
Some interesting facts about me:
I’m a true entrepreneur. My first job was at the tender age of nine, delivering newspapers because I was tired of getting an allowance from my parents.
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In February 2024, I traveled to Patagonia, the trip of a lifetime with my husband, my brother, and my brother’s girlfriend. We saw penguins, glaciers, the marble caves of Chile Chico, and visited Ushuaia, the so-called ‘end of the world.’
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I grew up in a small town in Canada that straddled the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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I forgot to put on my (red velvet!) shorts when I was ten after exiting the Banff Hot Springs! No one in my family noticed that I was only in my underwear until we were about to enter the fanciest hotel in town.
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I lived in France for a year in eleventh grade. I barely spoke a word of French when I got there, but I was conversationally fluent by the time I left.
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I’ve seen Tori Amos in concert four times. (She’s my all-time favorite.)
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My husband and I are pandemic wedding casualties. The plan was to marry in Mexico on March 24, 2020, but we had to cancel only six days before we were due to leave. I never got to wear my wedding dress.
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I signed my first book deal for a whopping $4,000 in 2007.
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I interviewed a female forensic anthropologist while ghostwriting a book about a missing person case—and her evidence solved the case after twenty-five years!
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A former FBI agent told me who shot John F. Kennedy. I ghostwrote a book for him that was never published.
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Behind the Cover
A Ghostwriter’s Guide to Authoring Your Own Business Book
Behind the Cover distills my more than fifteen years of writing and publishing experience and lays out my method from start to finish.
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