Freelance Writer, Author, Speaker, Lit Agent, Wife, Mother 

I’m a bit of a renaissance woman in that I tend to move from career to career based on my passions. A social worker by training, once I had kids, I worked as a contract adoption social worker, and built online income through freelance writing, book authorship, blogging, and digital products. 

Once my kids were older, I discovered the joy of writing fiction, and now have over a dozen fiction books under a pen name, and have been a successful fiction ghost writer. I worked as a literary agent at Blue Ridge Literary Agency, until the agency’s closing at the end of 2023. 

I have delivered workshops and participated on panels as Leslie Truex and as my pen name at a host of book conferences including The Virginia Festival of the Book, The Virginia Writers Club Symposium, The Maryland Writers Association, Malice Domestic, Thrillerfest, Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival, and more. 

Today, I continue to freelance write, author books, speak, and in a recent pivot, offer author mentorship and manuscript/query support to authors. Having been through the process of writing, querying, and publishing in both fiction and nonfiction, I’m uniquely poised to help others navigate the publishing industry.