As a child growing up in rural Michigan I always wanted to be a writer. I wrote long stories about the characters in my two favorite television shows Robin Hood and Zorro -- not knowing that that made me a fan fiction writer. (Yes there actually was television when I was growing up but it was in black and white.) I even took the characters from Robin Hood and used them in a Zorro story -- perhaps the first crossover story. I also wrote a lot of original works including some poetry.

I attended Michigan State University. Somehow my creativity got put on the back burner while I discovered the excitement of college life, met my future husband, explored a lot of diverse subjects from genetics to social psychology, and majored in Advertising.

Over the next thirty-five years the odyssey took me to Columbus, Ohio -- purported by some (very few) to be the center of the world. I worked in library technical services, drug abuse education, securities law, bakery management and symphonic education. None of these jobs stretched my creative writing skills, but they certainly supplied a lifetime of plot ideas.

In the summer of 2001 I was bemoaning the end of Xena Warrior Princess and the discontinuation of showing reruns of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys when I turned to the internet for inspiration. I found out that there were people who, exactly as I had as a child, wrote stories using television characters. Now it was called fan fiction. After about a week of reading other people's stories, I decided to write one myself.

My first fan fiction story OLD LOVE was published on Bards of the Xenaverse in August 2001. Since then I have written almost 100 stories that appear on the internet. While this web site will serve to tie these stories together, it will also serve to highlight a few more aspects of McJude not readily apparent in my stories. Indulge me.

JUST FOR FUN I added some pictures showing my love of the fandoms about which I write.

For an update on my activities in 2006 (which didn't include much writing) see CHRISTMAS IN OHIO.