I wrote Isabella’s Earth and the Forces of Doom from a little sprig of an idea before my son was born in early 1997. However, it took me ten years to finally start writing it, and only after I felt a very strong intuitive push to sit down and finally begin to write. Starting without an outline, or a full concept of the story, I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and the story began to flow.

Every night after putting my son to bed, I would close my eyes, place my fingers on the keyboard and the story would effortlessly pick up from where I left it the night before, and then begin to flow again from my imagination, to my fingertips, and onto the page.

Writing Isabella's Earth was a profound experience, almost like writing about my own evolutionary tale, one page at a time.  Spending my childhood summers at our family cottage on a small lake in southern Wisconsin, I have always felt a deep connection to Mother Earth, and writing Isabella's Earth reminded me of that.

Isabella’s Earth and the Forces of Doom is a story that speaks to the very real problems that humanity is facing today and a fundamental need to inspire our children to reconnect and live harmoniously with nature again.

My hopes for Isabella's Earth is for my young readers to come away feeling a renewed connection to Nature and begin making the small changes that will have a positive impact on humanity and our beautiful home we call Earth.