About Me

     I write under the pen names of Avery Daniels for cozy mysteries and C.G. Abbot for thrillers.  

hold a BSBA degree with a management emphasis. I am a Colorado gal born and raised. I love the low bug population, but I have never gotten used the winter temperatures. I guess it is a fair trade, though. I have worked in Fortune 500 companies or Department of Defense contracting my entire adult life, but it is time to do what I have wanted all along.

​     I graduated from college with a degree in business administration. My most eventful job was apartment management for 352 units. I still live in Colorado with two brother black cats as my spirited companions. I volunteer for a cat shelter, enjoy scrapbooking and card making, photography, and painting in watercolor and acrylic. I inherited a love for reading from her mother and grandmother and grew up talking about books at the dinner table.

​     Before you ask, I have wanted to write since I was a teen. My first attempt was a rather syrupy "Old Yeller" tale involving an injured fawn and the young girl who nurses it back to health. I believe I was in High School at the time and had no proper creative writing training to guide me. I have come a long way, baby, since then.