I have been called a late bloomer but I have to disagree. I would not have been able to write twenty years ago. I hadn't lived a life yet, hadn't felt the pain that my characters feel, perhaps I had not caused the pain my characters feel. I had to be schooled on the way life is lived if we are to survive.
I did write for fun, little stories to entertain and amuse, maybe teach a lesson but nothing that I would have ever felt I would see published.
My family had stories that we always wondered about, family secrets that were never spoken of, at least not openly. We knew of a tragedy in my grandmother's past but were never able to confront her about it. I heard stories about the homestead she grew up on and knew my mother always dreamed of seeing it one day. In 2013 I decided that if we didn't get back to the homestead soon, we never would. So we spontaneously planned a trip, asked my mother's brother 's family if they would like to go with us and we all piled into several cars and made the two day car trip from Washington State to Colorado. During that trip I realized how land could bewitch my ancestors, people who had lived a life of oppression, escaped to the west and the freedom it represented, only to be prisoners of their own inner demons. It was from this single experience that "The Welshman's Wife" was born in an attempt to provide answers to the questions that plagued my family for years and to prove that the fears of my grandmother, while very real for her, were nothing to fear or be ashamed of.
All my books can be purchased from Amazon.com in both Kindle and hard copy.
I did write for fun, little stories to entertain and amuse, maybe teach a lesson but nothing that I would have ever felt I would see published.
My family had stories that we always wondered about, family secrets that were never spoken of, at least not openly. We knew of a tragedy in my grandmother's past but were never able to confront her about it. I heard stories about the homestead she grew up on and knew my mother always dreamed of seeing it one day. In 2013 I decided that if we didn't get back to the homestead soon, we never would. So we spontaneously planned a trip, asked my mother's brother 's family if they would like to go with us and we all piled into several cars and made the two day car trip from Washington State to Colorado. During that trip I realized how land could bewitch my ancestors, people who had lived a life of oppression, escaped to the west and the freedom it represented, only to be prisoners of their own inner demons. It was from this single experience that "The Welshman's Wife" was born in an attempt to provide answers to the questions that plagued my family for years and to prove that the fears of my grandmother, while very real for her, were nothing to fear or be ashamed of.
All my books can be purchased from Amazon.com in both Kindle and hard copy.