Authors

rec's stories explore slow-building, long-term relationships and the acceptance of two people for one another. "Jake's Hand" and "Jake's Side," companion novellas tell the story of two college men, who have volunteered to tutor black kids in the South for the 1969 summer, grow more and more attracted to one another.

The majority of Renee's stories are contemporary, but she does dabble in the paranormal and hopes to branch out into Sci-Fi. Regardless of the genre, her stories are about love and overcoming obstacles. While her characters tend to be put through the wringer, it is usually worth it for them to persevere to the end.

I was born in New York just after WWII when, because of the Depression and the war, the city seemed very little changed from the 1920s. I spent a lot of time listening to my grandparents, hearing what the area was like from when they were born in the 1880s, so it was like living in multiple time periods. I grew up in the suburbs, spent the next 20 years freelancing a design career in the Midwest and Northeast then followed that career to Los Angeles.

I write of young teen love that gives them hope.