Can you tell us a little about yourself ? I was born in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia but left there as a young child and my family ended up in Pasadena , California . That was a great place to grow up , and though I ’ ve moved on , I remember Pasadena with great fondness .
I began my writing career in the late 1980s and was first published by a German magazine that bought a romance I ’ d written . They paid the princely sum of $ 300 – but I was thrilled that anyone would actually pay me to write – even if it was only a pittance .
My hobbies are simple : bird-watching ( supporter of the Audubon Society ), working jigsaw puzzles , cooking , crocheting ( though even after many years , I ’ m not that skilled ), watching English Premier League football ( Everton fan ) and watching Korean and Chinese Historical dramas online ( with subtitles ).
Was there a certain time in your life you knew you wanted to write ? I was always a secret scribbler ; the kid sitting in the back of the class hoping the teacher wouldn ’ t call on her – valuable time to daydream stories . But I didn ’ t develop the discipline necessary to make writing a profession until I was in my mid thirties . But when the writing bug hit me , it hit me hard and I knew that I wanted to spend my life doing exactly this .