Welcome!

If you have found your way here, you have either read my book, or are curious after I posted the link to my Facebook page. Or you're one of my dear friends, who had mercy and decided help my stats climb.

Whatever your reason for clicking on this blog, thank you for visiting. Let me tell you a little bit about myself.

As some know already, Gabrielle is really only my middle name, and Moon is not actually my last name. I chose this pen name, because 1) I have a funny sounding German name that people just can't seem to pronounce, 2) I do really love the moon. I should write a book about the moon.

I call Portland, Oregon my home. I live here with my husband whom we shall call Ogre (based on his sheer height, and it really is his nickname in volleyball groups), my daughter, the Prima Ballerina, and my son, Indiana Luke Skywalker Jones (I should probably refer to him as ILSJ!) My kids are 11 and 9 years old respectively, and as you can see from my blog description, they're homeschooled. Yep, we're those weirdos... but we really are quite normal. My kids enjoy their friends, Wii, games, movies, and of course pushing each other's buttons, until Mom has a tizzy.

Ogre works from home. He spends the vast majority of his time in his office, writing code of some sort. Every now and then he will appear from the depths of his cave to explain to me something I don't understand, or to pour himself yet another cup of coffee.

As for me, I am your average housewife, crazy volunteer, half-assed writer with procrastination issues, who is desperately trying to keep up with homeschooling, cleaning, working out (Crossfit anyone?), volunteering, knitting... oh yes, and writing. Writing, it has been my dream career since I was a little girl. I wrote my first "book" with a pen and lots of paper at the tender age of 13. In 8th grade, my teacher had me know that writing was not a career... and especially not for (wait for it) a girl! Of course, I believed him, and so I gave up writing.

For about 20 years I tried to do "other things", you know, things that people do, because that's what you do. I became a cosmetologist, sold beauty products at home parties, created gift baskets, tried my luck at translations, and briefly worked at a telephone marketing company (nuf said). And then, about 5 years ago, I found my way back to writing, by way of a magazine article for the Institute for Children's Literature. And that pretty much sealed the deal for me. Two writing courses, many magazine articles, and one published book later, I can say, I'm doing just what I want to be doing.

I self published my novel, PLANNED, last year in April, and amazingly enough, I actually made money on it. THANK YOU!!!

My new novel, a sweet, romantic comedy, called DIVINE INTERVENTION, is in the works, and the plan is for it to be published in June. Stay tuned for more information on this new work, which I will soon post about. Also, this blog is the only place where you'll be able to read excerpts of the book, so do please come back.

My idea for this blog is to keep readers in the loop about my work, but also on why I chose to self publish, how I did it, what I'd do different in the future, and quite possibly, you'll get to read the occasional rant about my favorite subject: PROCRASTINATION!

Have a wonderful day!