Ever since creating stories illustrated with crayon drawings in grade school, LaVerne set her sights on publishing a novel. Writing in her Pennsylvania hometown, books of space travel and mysteries gave way to espionage and, finally, romance. College education in Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee, Kansas, and Michigan permitted a healthy study of American culture and landscape to use in her writing.
Trained as an information specialist, she has worked in universities, on US naval bases, in Government consulting firms and in the pharmaceutical industry. She now lives in North Carolina with her husband and owns Open Book Communications, a business which provides library research services and distributes selected fiction and non-fiction.
