Long before doctors began diagnosing children with ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder, Lesa went through school with her own form of ADD, Acute Desire to Daydream. She would rather have been daydreaming, making up stories and living them out in her head, than just about anything else. Playing outside didn't appeal to her--she didn't care to sweat; she wasn't interested in reading a book--this meant a school book report; then of course there was her aversion to sports--she loathed kicking, dodging, and throwing any kind of ball. All this left Lesa a fairly mediocre student.

Then came Lesa’s sophomore year in high school and a short story assignment. Lesa could write about anything she wanted, so she wrote a funny account of a girl detonating a stink bomb in her boyfriend's car. Her story scored the highest in the entire sophomore class. More importantly, it helped Lesa see the connection between her imagination and what she was learning in the classroom.

However, Lesa found herself more interested in becoming an adult, so that was what she did. Fast-forward a few years, now married and raising a family, Lesa found herself with spare time on her hands. Much to her surprise, she discovered reading a pleasant way to pass the time between car pooling and dirty laundry. Somehow reading for pleasure was vastly different than reading for grades. Very quickly Lesa developed an affinity for children's and young adult books in particular.

All this rekindled Lesa's inner-storyteller. She went from wondering why authors would write a scene a certain way to wondering if she could do it herself. Still, it seemed to her authors were special, esoteric, and she didn't know where they got whatever it was that made them what they were, so she was hesitant to step out. Plus, if she kept the stories in her head no one but she would know how truly crazy she was. Deciding the only way to know for sure was to do it she did exactly that. And now her first books, the AMANDA NOBLE series, are a product of her unbridled imagination. They are a sort of tribute to all those childhood fantasies. And as far as being crazy, well the photos to the left prove it indubitably.