Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I grew up in Bend, Oregon. I had a great high school English teacher, Julie Reynolds, who predicted I would someday be a writer. It only took me 40 years to fulfill her prophecy.
When did you first start writing?
I've written off and on most of my life. But I always hated erasing and rewriting. So my writing career didn't really take off until my first word processor, about 1995.
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