Val has been involved in the publishing industry for nearly 20 years, authoring, editing, and publishing a variety of adult fiction, juvenile fiction, health and wellness books, cookbooks, craft magazines, and non-fiction titles. She keeps busy editing three juvenile fictional novels to be released in the near future, maintaining a variety of topical websites and blogs, dyeing silks, painting, watching the sea gulls soar on the wind or taking walks with her terrier, Scottie.