When did you first start writing?
My first creative writing happened as soon as I could hold a pencil. In Kindergarten I was writing little poems about my cat, and all through school, I filled notebooks full of poetry and lyrics. It wasn't until I was an adult that I tried writing a book. It was so long, it ended up being three books, and a decade later, they became my first published books--My Champion, My Warrior, and My Hero.
Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
In elementary school, I wrote a medieval story that was actually more of a picture book. I brazenly traced figures out of Disney books and the encyclopedia and wrote an adventure that featured an unbeknownst-to-me international cast--Pedro, Jacques, King Arthur, and Prince Philip.
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