Her writing process is raw, instinctual, and just a little bit feral. She doesn’t write clean, orderly outlines; she writes messy, breathless moments of obsession, dangerous secrets, and slow, heavy kisses that carry ruinous consequences. For Rue, stepping into the dark isn't just a writing style it's an invitation to the reader.
For most of her life, Rue’s creative outlet was found behind the heavy velvet curtains of the theater. After years spent stage managing complex productions orchestrating chaos, directing energy, and bringing dramatic worlds to life under the stage lights she made the leap to full time author. Trading the theater stage for the page was a natural evolution; she simply swapped managing live actors for directing the morally gray characters living in her head.
When she isn’t weaving tales of dangerous obsession and dark secrets, Rue lives a life that is just as beautifully, wonderfully chaotic as her books. She recently packed up her life in Southern California and relocated to the East Coast, embarking on an exciting new chapter closer to her family. Her days are a constant balancing act between her dedication to her writing career and her favorite real world roles: a wife of twenty-one years, a mother to a teenager, and a proud, full time babysitter to her adorable granddaughter.
And then, of course, there are the real rulers of the house. Rue is a massive animal lover, and a recent attempt to rescue a single cat in a local park turned into a grand adventure when she realized the rescue was pregnant. Today, she officially serves as a live in butler to seven cats including Sonny Black, Beansie, Toni Soprano, and their four unnamed babies. It’s a loud, crowded, cat-filled life, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
