Writing, for me, will never be anything more than a hobby, but if I never sell another book, the thrill and enjoyment of playing this game will have been more than worth the effort. Here is what got me started: I escaped from the daily races and disappeared into obscurity at the tender age of […]
When I was several years into my career as a physicist, I started taking evening classes. I was frustrated with my life and I knew that I was searching for something but I had no idea what it was, so I tried the lot: life drawing, Thai cookery, Indian dancing, French lessons… and finally, creative […]
I began writing as a child because I loved books and I wanted to imitate what I saw there. My mother was the first in her Italian-American family to go to college. The daughter of a single mother, she had long dreamed of being a schoolteacher. When I was born, she had recently received her […]
While my success has come as a mystery writer, I began as a poet. Poetry was my way to be heard above the din. I grew up in an angry household. My family communicated everything, even love, through anger and we all did it rather loudly. I recognized early on that as the youngest, my […]
I came to writing late. A classic late-bloomer, I started out in banking, hated it with a soul-deep passion, and was happy to stay at home with my kids while they were small. But once they were in school all day, I needed something to keep me sane. My husband suggested I write a book, […]
I came to poetry with a deep desperation to be acknowledged, to find alternate realities, to exist in a space that belonged only to me. Books, poems, and words offered me the respite I couldn’t find in the physical world. When I read a book, I completely disappeared into that reality. I was not a […]
Why do I write? Well for the money of course! When I received my first advance, I dumped the entire $72.50 on my bed and just rolled around in it, while blasting Coolio’s Money. However, I think, before I was corrupted by wealth, my drive to write came from a much more organic place. I […]
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