I am a native of Los Angeles, born and raised. I began a career in the business world, then had children, so I decided to stay home and be with them. Writing, for me, started in my 40s, six or seven years ago. It just sort of happened—like someone waking up one day and realizing they could sing (a personal fantasy of mine—but I digress.) I began writing fan fiction for a TV show I’d become disenchanted with. For those unfamiliar, fan fiction is the writing of stories where the characters—and usually the setting—have already been created by someone else. Fan fiction can be written based on TV shows, books, movies, comics, Anime...anything where the characters and basic idea of the story have already been created, with the understanding by everyone that rights to those characters and that show/book/movie/comic belong to someone else. I started writing what I’d like to see happen, with the plot, the characters, etc. There are a lot of fan fiction writers out there, and many places where the work can be posted online. Out of that came the first pages of TESTAROSSA.   I love crime fiction and cop shows, so I tried to do both with TESTAROSSA.