Apart from the usual newspaper and magazine competitions aimed at schol kids, I didn't actively start writing my own prose until my children were both able to read fluently. I used to write bedtime stories for them ... for which they were encouraged to further develop the imagery by producing their own illustrations.

As they grew older, I made a few half-hearted attempts at producing my first 'grand novel' ... but life always seemed to get in the way.

When my grand children were born, I resumed my short story writing ... made more exciting by naming characters after them.

I also wrote a great many letters to my grandchildren in Australia ... from my cat, Thomas. The  letters, every day happenings from a 'cat's eye' view, were a huge success with them, and all their friends, which encouraged me to make a more serious effort with a novel.

Lost and Found, an epic fantasy / mythology adventure, spans the worlds of humans- fairy-folk and Hell's Mouth.

Lost and Found is a trilogy ... Book 2, Lost Again will be ready for publication in January and Book 3, Redemption by late spring. (2009)

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