Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
Not to disclose much about myself, because I do value my privacy and that of my families, but I grew up in a small county in Virginia not far from Richmond. My life as a child was pretty normal, I saw a lot and I did a lot, and that is what I go to when I'm writing.
When did you first start writing?
Let my friends tell it when I came out of the womb, but to be perfectly honest, I was writing at a very young age. I had my second grade teacher pay me $.40 for ice cream for short stories that I would write. I loved to write, and I had sort of fell out of the habit when I became older, but when I got back into it, I did so with a vengenance!
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