CB Pratt

My desk is about 6 feet long, papers to the right of me, papers to the left. We just moved but I confess it never is very tidy. The papers are mostly research notes, to-do lists and magazines with inspirational pictures. I don't use a laptop so there's a big black CPU to my left with a printer clinging for dear life to the far corner of the desk. It's not tidy, as I say, but I get the job done here.

I used to lie awake in the dark, a life-long night owl, and tell myself stories to pass the time until I'd fall asleep a couple of hours after I was packed off to bed. My father loved to take long car trips and those stories helped with the boredom of a long drive...no tv sets in the cars back then! Eventually I started writing the stories down. I started writing for publication in my 20's, selling my first book at 28. I gave myself until I was 30 to get published...or I'd have to get a 'real job'.