I spent many years as a lawyer before realizing that I’d rather write things that people might actually enjoy reading. I grew up mostly overseas and attended eight different schools, my favorite being the Hogwarts-type castle in Scotland. The faculty, of course, did not consist of wizards, although . . . how did the headmistress know that it was “the wee redhead” who led the campaign to free the mice from the biology lab? I draw on my childhood—and my second childhood through my children—for my stories. I still love to travel but nowadays most trips tend to be local, such as basketball and ten more...