Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I was born in the cold prairie province of Alberta, Canada but soon after moved to the beautiful West Coast and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia (one of the most beautiful places on earth, in my opinion!).
Growing up in Vancouver of course influenced my writing! Like famous author Douglas Coupland who is also from Vancouver, and whose stories are set in Vancouver, a lot of my stories (like Under a Starlit Sky) also take place in Vancouver (albeit sometimes an alternate history version of it as in my steampunk short stories!). After all, you should ‘write what you know’, right?
When did you first start writing?
The first thing I remember vividly, is writing a story in elementary school – I must have been about 5 or 6 or so. I wrote a couple page story (with illustrations, all done by me) on construction paper. It was about a knight called Michael (not a very knightly name, I know!) who rescued a princess from a dragon. Funnily enough, about 16 years later, I married my husband, also called Michael. I still have that little booklet hiding somewhere…and I’ve been writing ever since!
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