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I've written in one form or another since
early childhood, including poems, songs, stories, and keeping a
journal. Life demands (including full time work and two children) kept
me from writing, but when my youngest turned 5, I began to hear my muse
whispering (nagging) again.
I returned to poetry and discovered that the
internet was a vital resource and gathering place for far-flung poets.
I stumbled onto Wild
Poetry Forum and began to workshop old poems and
to write new ones. Within a few years, I was asked to become a
moderator, then a few years later, promoted to head moderator.
Sometime after my 40th birthday, my husband
finished a book he'd been reading, threw it across the room in disgust
and turned to me saying, "Even you can write better than that."
It was meant as a challenge, not an insult
(at least not to me!) and that was the year I wrote "The Wings of
Winter."
That year was also what I call my 'crash
course in remedial novel writing for the poet.' Much of what I know
now, I learned from writing and critique partners I found at Forward
Motion for Writers. They taught me, steering me toward
resources in
print and on the web and I am forever grateful.
Over the course of the following
years, I
wrote 5 more novels, "MindBlind," "The House of Many
Doors," "Heal
Thyself," "The Between," and "Future Tense."
My 6 completed novels represent several
different
genres and styles. I consider myself a reading and writing 'omnivore.'
My favorite genres are fantasy, scifi, speculative fiction, thrillers,
and mysteries. I read and write both YA and adult novels.
I am currently brainstorming for several new
novel ideas and returning to "The Wings of Winter" with an eye toward
revising it for the YA market.
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