Trudy is the Nightbird

Trudy Troutman is an unassuming manager of an art supply store, and a creator of unassuming, sweet greeting cards. She is also her husband Teaman's ever-present muse. When Teaman experiences writer's block, Trudy brings home a potion from a local herbalist. The potion accidentally gets into Trudy's system, bringing her a new, possibly dangerous, probably illegal artistic expression. Trudy must keep her identity a secret; she might be a criminal. Praise, protests, arrests, and misconceptions ensue. Her too quiet, too timid existence is profoundly altered by. . . magic? fate? circumstance? an eccentric woman who dispenses potions? Whatever the cause, the result is an artistic soul set free. What could be better?

Christine lives happily and gratefully on the Central Coast of California. She is a writer, artist and manager of one of our few remaining independent bookstores. She has written several novels, novellas, short stories and children's stories.