About Georgia

Here's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

I have been writing stories for as long as I can remember. Born and raised in Rochester, New York, and its various suburbs, I had everyday, working class parents. My dad worked for a local highway department and my mother was a stay-at-home mom until my teen years when she began working at a bank. Only as I got older did I focus on the many journals my mother kept and my maternal grandfather's love of crossword puzzles and realize this is probably where I got my affection for words.

Of course, it's a rare writer who thinks early on that she can actually spend her life writing without getting a 'real job.' Being a novelist never really crossed my mind - not seriously, anyway. So, I went to college in Mansfield, Pennsylvania and earned myself a Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communications (emphasis on Broadcasting with a minor in Theater, if you want to get technical). Fresh out of school (and not having written much aside from term papers in a very long time), I was ready to conquer the world of television. I got a job at Rochester's local public television station, where I worked my tail off for a wage so miniscule I might as well have been working for free. It didn't take me long to figure out that I didn't have the patience to work my way up in that field - it would mean moving out of my hometown and I wasn't ready to do that. I was the oldest of five daughters, one of whom was only a toddler at the time, and I didn't relish the idea of leaving my family. So, I left my job instead.