About Me
Eleanor and her horse Sage, riding the writing trails...
I live just outside of Portland, OR in the beautiful Pacific NW. My story begins in Northern California, growing up in a little town in the Bay Area. It was there that I fell in love with horses and was lucky enough to live by a boarding facility that was less than a five minute walk from my house. Horses would become an integral part of my life.
My
very first job was tending to customers at a feed and tack store. It was
adjacent to the stables that housed the horse I rode and showed for
the store's owners.
Upon graduation from high school, I attended the University of California, Davis, in hopes of becoming a veterinarian. Freshman Fall Quarter meat lab for my Animal Science major had me heavily questioning veterinary medicine, however, so I switched to Zoology and then later made my way into sales...
Ten days after my graduation ceremony, I arrived in Seattle with everything that I owned packed into my 2-door Toyota Tercel. I had visited Washington state the summer before my Senior year in college, and I had known immediately that I would return to its emerald beauty as soon as possible after graduation.
I have worked in sales my entire career, for environmental and hazardous waste remediation companies and a major pharmaceutical company. When I met and married my husband, then a year later became pregnant, I left the world of pharmaceutical sales to start my family. About the time my second child was almost out of diapers, I was approached by an author friend of mine to help publicize her books.
I had a blog for over a year, but now I write in 140 characters or less on Twitter. Come see what I have to say about books, publicity, writing, and more:
If you like horses, you can also find me over at my horse website inspired by Sage, Sage By Nature.