Susan E. Smith

It began long, long, ago, in a galaxy far, far away... just kidding! Well, kidding about the faraway galaxy at least. It did begin quite awhile ago, about 5 years to be exact, with a challenge from a friend to a bunch of us writer-buddies, to write a novella that included a bunch of random items such as a crutch and I don't remember what else. I was the only one who kept at it until it turned into an actual book. I'm still not sure if the finished product, at 45,000 words, is a novella or a short novel... it depends what source you consult.

The credit for that goes to Daryl Martin, a friend of my partner's, who once spoke these words on Gaming night, and described them as (and I paraphrase here) "the three things a man likes best". I was struggling to find a title for the book and that just seemed to fit.