Former real estate and environmental attorney with the Dallas office of Jones Day, recently returned to practice after years of home schooling her three children. She is now a solo in family law—and a newcomer to the literary life. “I never thought about fiction,” she said in a phone interview. “I just started writing things down and ideas grew. Then I looked around for publishing opportunities and spotted the New York Law Journal contest. I said to myself, ‘Well, OK, I can do that.’”
I never planned to work for a dying lawyer. I never planned to work for any lawyer again, not even myself. Rebuilding a career after a two-decade kid hiatus and a divorce is a nasty business at best. Add a disastrous economy, then throw an impending death into the mix, and you have the dictionary definition of nasty.
