After an early career in corporate journalism, Terri moved to Florida's Suncoast as the lucky owner of a quaint mom 'n' pop motel on once-quiet Anna Maria Island. After thirty years in hospitality and a well-timed real estate career, she's settled in old Bradenton where she finished her first novel "When Not If," the adventures of a Florida pioneer woman born during the hurricane that leveled Cortez. FL in 1921. Part two of that story is in the works now.