Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, but I don't know that this was much of an influence on my writing other than the fact that I started writing poetry in sixth grade that my teacher thought was pretty good. I later wrote newsletters and manuals for different companies that I worked for, but my true writing career started at a lonely point in my life. When I wrote my first book, my husband was working long days, seven days a week and I was alone a lot, so I threw myself into writing. Then it became a passion.
When did you first start writing?
In 2006, my grandson inspired me to write a rhyming children's book. I sent it to several different publishers for over a year with not even one response, so I became disenchanted, but writing was in my blood, so I put that book on the back burner and pursued other forms of writing.
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