About Fran                                                                              

The first writing I remember doing was a play I co-authored in fourth grade about the Spanish settlers who came to Florida. I'm not sure what possessed me and my friend Lynda Marks  to pen this except for the opportunity to take the two leads. We cast all of the girls in our class and none of the boys. It was such a success that we got to perform it for the fifth and sixth graders. Many years later, I ended up in Florida, too.  

In the intervening years, I earned an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh at night school while I worked in the insurance industry by day. I served as  the public relations chair for two professional organizations and also was the editor of a national insurance publication.

Returning to Pitt, I got a master's in Educational Psychology.

For the past seven years, I've been the publicist for artist and gallery owner Leoma Lovegrove.

I'm the Marketing and Publicity Chair for the the Symphonic Chorale of Southwest Florida with whom I also sing. I tweet for Calendar Girls Florida, a group of dancers all over the age of fifty, with whom I dance.