Location: United States
Member Since:
March 19, 2013
Margot Sloan
Biography
My life has been a series of blessings and blunders and I’m grateful for all of them. They’ve given me the inspiration I needed to be a storyteller.
I grew up in a small town in North Carolina in a family as close to being the “Cleavers” as any I’ve ever known (for those of you who don’t remember Leave It To Beaver the modern correlation would be…well there’s no modern equivalent—the Cleavers simply aren’t interesting enough for TV anymore). From my uncomplicated childhood, I went on to Appalachian State University and graduated with a B.S. in English. Immediately after graduation, I moved to Hilton Head, South Carolina and that’s where the craziness began (or maybe it was before that, I can’t exactly remember). In Hilton Head, I developed an appreciation of the coastal South (in spite of its disastrous effects on my hair). And in Hilton Head, I began to collect stories and characters. There’s no better place to meet “characters” than in a resort where inhibitions seem to be on vacation also.
But all that fun finally wore me out and, exhausted, I returned to North Carolina in the early nineties. That is when I met and married my husband and settled into normalcy with three step-children (oh yeah, that’s normalcy—trying to parent three children having no experience with their species). But all of that became fodder for my tales too.
So the children grew up and moved on and I occupied myself with home projects, mundane chores and a nine-to-five job, constantly asking the question “is this it?” And on a whim in early 2012 I began to write my first manuscript with only a seed of a story and no idea where it would go. And bit by bit, I found great satisfaction in creating a story and characters over whom I had complete control. It was like nothing in real life. In the world of fantasy, you can do anything, go anywhere (geographically and emotionally), be anybody. In fantasy land, if it’s Daniel Craig that you want, you can simply have him; there’s no Rachel Weisz standing in your way. Needless to say, writing has been the most liberating thing that I have ever done.
I am grateful for your interest and support of my projects and I will do my best to continue to entertain you.
I grew up in a small town in North Carolina in a family as close to being the “Cleavers” as any I’ve ever known (for those of you who don’t remember Leave It To Beaver the modern correlation would be…well there’s no modern equivalent—the Cleavers simply aren’t interesting enough for TV anymore). From my uncomplicated childhood, I went on to Appalachian State University and graduated with a B.S. in English. Immediately after graduation, I moved to Hilton Head, South Carolina and that’s where the craziness began (or maybe it was before that, I can’t exactly remember). In Hilton Head, I developed an appreciation of the coastal South (in spite of its disastrous effects on my hair). And in Hilton Head, I began to collect stories and characters. There’s no better place to meet “characters” than in a resort where inhibitions seem to be on vacation also.
But all that fun finally wore me out and, exhausted, I returned to North Carolina in the early nineties. That is when I met and married my husband and settled into normalcy with three step-children (oh yeah, that’s normalcy—trying to parent three children having no experience with their species). But all of that became fodder for my tales too.
So the children grew up and moved on and I occupied myself with home projects, mundane chores and a nine-to-five job, constantly asking the question “is this it?” And on a whim in early 2012 I began to write my first manuscript with only a seed of a story and no idea where it would go. And bit by bit, I found great satisfaction in creating a story and characters over whom I had complete control. It was like nothing in real life. In the world of fantasy, you can do anything, go anywhere (geographically and emotionally), be anybody. In fantasy land, if it’s Daniel Craig that you want, you can simply have him; there’s no Rachel Weisz standing in your way. Needless to say, writing has been the most liberating thing that I have ever done.
I am grateful for your interest and support of my projects and I will do my best to continue to entertain you.