Christine is an equestrian, animal lover, and tap dancer. Between October 2015 and January 2018, she traveled the world petsitting in the UK, EU, and USA, while working remotely. She loves to go horseback riding in the English Lake District, snowshoeing in The Alps, hiking in the Scottish Highlands, and sea kayaking in the Hebrides. She recently fulfilled a lifelong dream by moving to London, the city of her soul. She lived there with her rescue cat, Smudge, for two years before returning to Portland, where she’s happy to be back in the same place as her partner, Brian, and their two cats, Basil and Vincent. Although…Smudge isn’t too happy about that last part.
Christine is also the award-winning author of the 5-book Rowan of the Wood fantasy series, which she co-wrote (2008 – 2014) with her former husband, Ethan. Her 2010 Amazon.com bestselling book Publishing and Marketing Realities for the Emerging Author helped writers feel successful by educating them about the publishing industry and marketing their book during a tumultuous time in publishing. Since then, she wrote the critically-acclaimed One Reason to Live, a memoir about surviving through travel and living with C-PTSD. It is her 12th and last book.
She started writing plays in early 2024, and she’s written 6 to date. She produced her first play, Sanctuary, at London’s off-West End theatre The Hope Theatre in November 2024. She looks forward to producing more plays in the near future.
Christine is also an accomplished fine artist with work available on Fine Art America. She’s mostly worked in acrylics, but she’s increased her skills with watercolor over the years. In June 2025, she took up metal sculpture and stained glass. She takes beautiful photos of her travels, which you can see through personal Instagram feed.
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Christine’s Online Writing Portfolio
Instagram Travel Photos * Watercolor & Metal Art
Between the years 2010 & 2014, Christine also wrote, blogged, and podcasted under the name O. M. Grey.
Before her untimely death, Olivia focused her writing on alternative lifestyles and deliciously dark matters of the heart. Her work has been published in various anthologies and magazines like Stories in the Ether, Steampunk Adventures, SNM Horror Magazine and How The West Was Wicked.
Her premiere Steampunk erotica novel, Avalon Revisited, was an Amazon.com Gothic Romance bestseller. She also wrote Avalon Revamped (it’s sequel, of sorts); The Zombies of Mesmer, a YA Steampunk Romance; its sequel, The Ghosts of Southwark; and Caught in the Cogs: An Eclectic Collection of short stories, love poetry, and relationship essays.
Her poem “New York Rain” made the Bar None Group’s Hall of Fame, and her short story “Dust on the Davenport,” as well as her bestselling Steamy Steampunk novel Avalon Revisited, won the 2012 Steampunk Chronicle’s Reader’s Choice Award for best short story and best novel, respectively. Olivia was voted “Muse of the Fair” at the 2011 Steampunk World’s Fair and has enjoyed being a special literary guest at Steampunk Conventions.
What colleague and friend, Robert Stikmanz, says about Christine/Olivia:
Christine is a clear force of nature, ranging over the expanse of creation, sometimes in one breath. Prodigiously productive and tireless in her efforts to promote her work, she is an example at whom I marvel more than emulate.
Christine Rose 