About Lana

When I was losing my life’s greatest battle, God saved my life. Literally. A few years later, He nudged me to start writing novels.

I’d spent decades writing for the medical community … but creative writing? God has a sense of humor.

More about that later. But for now, a quick snapshot of me:

• Science, history, and archaeology geek
• Love true stories of grit and “going beyond”
• Adore secret staircases, houses’ mysterious third floors, jazz music, and chai tea
• Hiking is my favorite exercise and vacation
• Master’s degree in counseling
• Clinical laboratory scientist
• Believe in “I can” regardless of what people say
• Moved cross-country (alone) 3x to be treated for a near-fatal case of Lyme disease
• Beat the odds to LIVE
• Can’t ride roller coasters (neck injury)
• Live to create “aha” moments in writing
• Pretend I live in the mountains (but actually live on the 4th floor of a building on flat land)
• Believe many problems can be solved with common sense (and chai tea), but God can solve every problem

Writing is an adventure—much like hiking. Often humbling, always exciting. You’re never the same afterwards. In one way or another, you go beyond what you were before. In ways large or small, you overcome. I pray the same happens when you read my books.