When did you first start writing?
I've spent my life writing, first in journalism and then in corporate communications. I often thought about writing fiction and even started a few stories, but I was never motivated to do the hard work of completing anything.
What's the story behind your latest book?
I travel a lot and like to set stories in interesting places. I've been to Mexico a few times and as I needed a foreign location, that seemed ideal.
Gwen Madden is a middle-aged woman who wants to make changes in her life, such as travelling as she did when she was young. In this first adventure, she's offered a all-expenses-paid trip to Mexico to look for a neighbour's daughter missing from an archaeological dig in Mexico. She finds the change she is looking for plus lost stolen artifacts and murder. In subsequent adventures I expect her desire for adventure and her need for money will be the primary motives for putting her between a rock and a hard place in various corners of the world.
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