With favorite writers like Somerset Maugham, Edith Wharton, and Henry James, I've always wanted to write. In my twenties I went to Hollywood to study screenwriting, but meeting a new friend, John Stelnicki, put me onto a different life path.
John had translated from the Polish a diary handed down in his family from a countess who lived in 1790s Poland. My obsession became making the story into a novel and getting it published. While more...
