"The Forgotton Door" was the first book that I fell in love with. Mine was the only name on the library card glued to the back of paperback jacket. My second and third grade teacher encouraged my to move on but my grade school and later high school carried very little science fiction titles. The public library boasted of a bigger selection, but within a couple of years I devoured all the works of Ray Bradbury, Halan Ellison and Robert Silverberg that they shelved. During the summers our family would set out on a two week vacation to campsites and historic places and Mom read the "Narnian Chronicles" by CS Lewis and JR Tolkein's "Hobbit " and the "Lord of the Rings" as we rode past hills, cities, rivers and mountians in the eastern United States. By highschool, I wanted to be a writer. In a magazine article aimed at the highschool crowd. During an interview, Washington, one of the characters from tv series "Welcome Back Kotter" said to write well, one must experience as many things as possible.  So that was my game plan. To find out if it paid off... 

Ruth Willerth, living in Lancaster, NY, graduated from Niagara County Community College with an AA in Communications in 1982. She is the contributing editor for the series the “Knife of Truth”, working closely with her mother in crafting quality science fiction story “A Matter of Honor”. In 2007, Ruth and her mother partnered in a small press called SmatteringsBooks. The release date for Cynthia Willerth's final book in the Knife of Truth is 2015.