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When I was a girl, I thought I would become an architect. An interior designer. A sports reporter. A physio-therapist. Even a coroner (during theQuincy TV show era).

Never in a million years, did I expect to end up working in computers (though, looking back, she did have a thing for The Twilight Zone).

After graduating university with a journalism degree, I got a job as an advertising copywriter—only to lose it a couple of years later due to the economic recession of the early 1990s.

Determined to keep writing, I picked up random writing jobs (translation: writing about rakes and power tools for Canadian Tire store flyers and catalogs), until I applied for a full-time posting as a technology publicist/writer. It didn’t matter that I knew nothing about technology. I could learn (I needed the money). And learn I did, working on agency accounts over the years, like Dell, Lexmark, NEC and AT&T.

After getting married and having two amazing children, I established her own boutique agency, working on other accounts like Compaq, Microsoft, Palm and Symantec.

I also returned to my journalistic roots and began writing about lifestyle issues, architecture and design for magazines and newspapers, including Chatelaine, Style at Home, Canadian House & Home and The Globe and Mail.

Inspired to marry my two worlds in 2004, I pitched one of her magazine editors on a feature article that would educate mainstream women on technology (complete with a fun, sexy Cosmo-like quiz).

Rejected and dismayed, I turned the article concept into a novel, now known as Opportunity Rings, to empower women to do anything, even if that means installing a wireless network.

I still write about women and technology, architecture and design from my home office – while juggling meal preparation, helping my kids with homework and getting them to/from school, hockey, baseball, swimming and karate – with my smartphone and laptop permanently attached to my hip.

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<p>Richard II found himself under siege not once, but twice in his minority. Crowned king at age ten, he was only fourteen when the Peasants' Revolt terrorized London. But he proved himself every bit the Plantagenet successor, facing Wat Tyler and the rebels when all seemed lost. Alas, his triumph was short-lived, and for the next ten years he struggled to assert himself against his uncles and increasingly hostile nobles. Just like in the days of his great-grandfather Edward II, vengeful magnates strove to separate him from his friends and advisors, and even threatened to depose him if he refused to do their bidding. The Lords Appellant, as they came to be known, purged the royal household with the help of the Merciless Parliament. They murdered his closest allies, leaving the King alone and defenseless. He would never forget his humiliation at the hands of his subjects. Richard's inability to protect his adherents would haunt him for the rest of his life, and he vowed that next time, retribution would be his.</p>

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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;"></span><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;"></span><div><div>"A perfect read for a day at the beach!"</div><div>- Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping </div></div></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">"If you laughed and cried along with Bridget Jones and feel like Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda are your best buds, you'll love this laugh-'til-you-snort story of a wireless marketing maven who's more high gloss than high tech."</span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"></span></span><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;">- Sweetspot.ca</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"...funny, sweet and smart, combining girly-wit with techy-twit. I give this book two text messaging thumbs up."<br /></span></font><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> - Lauren McPhillips, Style at Home</span></font></div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"St</span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;">einberg's writing is simply hilarious, as we learn about what happens when high tech and high heels collide. In many cases, you're privy to Swift's thoughts (um, do all women think about food and sex so much?) or following her (mis)adventures as she wrestles with finicky gadgets and handsome suitors -- figuratively and literally."</span></font></div></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">- Marc Saltzman, MSN Sync</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div>

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A King Under Siege: Book One of The Plantagenet Legacy

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