I started reading when I was 4 years old and was never happier than with my nose in a book. At twelve I read Wuthering Heights over and over and was inspired then to want to write fiction that would transport readers to another time and place. I honed my writing style writing stories about my own life during my teens and twenties but threw out all those stories when I figured out what messages I wanted to convey with my writing in my thirites, so have been writing modern mythical fiction about very real people and problems for thirty years. I was also an attorney (a voice) for indigen more...