After spending several seasons covering the competitive skating circuit for ABC, ESPN, TNT and NBC, I knew one thing for sure: everyone in the ice skating world has at least one – maybe more – good reasons to want to kill everyone else. I knew that skating fans would love to read about all the behind-the-scenes goings-on so I wrote my five skating mysteries. But, I also knew that if I ever wanted to work again, writing a non-fiction tell-all was not the way to go.
So instead of a tell-all, I wrote the coffee table book, Inside Figure Skating, which did so well it went into a second printing! I also wrote a biography of Sarah Hughes, Skating To the Stars, two months before she unexpectedly won the Gold medal in Ladies’ Figure Skating in Salt Lake City in 2002!
However, I still had more stories to tell. Not exactly on the record – but not completely off it, either. Which is why at the beginning of every skating mystery, I say, “All characters are fictional and bear no resemblance to anyone living or dead.” That is my official story and I’m sticking to it!
