Writing is like breathing to me – I have to do it! I started writing at the age of seven with a self-illustrated tale of princesses, flying cats and riverboat captains. Dad read nothing but science fiction, and gave me my first Andre Norton book, which shaped my entire writing career from that moment on. […]
I’ve always been a creative, ever since I could first hold a pencil and spell a word. I wrote my first books aged 11, and have not stopped writing ever since. I owe my love of writing to the fantastical books that fuelled the early warping of my imagination – Lord of The Rings, The […]
It all began about 3200 BC. My ancient Sumerian ancestors followed their own urges and started to write things down. Now, over 5000 years later, I’m still at it. I guess you could say it’s in my DNA. I know some don’t have as many writing chromosomes as I do; they got the painting or […]
I wrote my first novel after my husband was diagnosed with cancer. We’d barely started our life together when he was diagnosed nine months after our wedding. Emotional and confused, I started reading. That led to writing. That led to years of experimentation with different types of writing and editing. I started writing as a […]
To be honest, I began writing because I wanted attention. I was a precocious six-year-old, reading at a level above the other kids in first grade, and when I managed to write a funny story – it would have been no longer than three or four sentences back then – the freckled, pig-tailed girl in […]
I was lying on my back, deathly ill, in Kathmandu, Nepal. I had contracted a rather devious strain of the Asian flu. My fever came and went. My body was weak and my mind, fuzzy. I slid to the furthest side of the bed. The day’s last ray of sunlight warmed my face. I looked […]
I didn’t know how to socialize well. It was just easier to create worlds of my own where I was cool and heroic. Before I could even write well I was making up stories with my toy cars. Back then there were no toy spaceships so I used hairbrushes, building blocks, and my harmonica. At […]
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