My childhood home had a bookcase in every room. The bookcases held neatly organized collections of books - novels, poetry, plays, essays, even my dad’s old biology textbooks. As a very young child, I spent lots of time with my grandmother, and I learned to read sitting on her lap with her soft arms around me. Before long I figured out that reading was reading, and I could read any of my parents’ books as easily as I could read Dick and Jane. The world opened up all of a sudden. I read all I could. To learn. To wander. To wonder.

In my adult life, I’ve pursued many other careers from legal assistant to storyteller to teacher to instructional designer, but when I started writing I felt as though my heart and soul had come home.

I write for adults and children. I’m also a technical writer for a medical school. Is it difficult to toggle between genres and age groups? Surprisingly, no. If you’re doing your job, then all writing means sculpting words into stories with characters on a quest or journey. In all writing, those words originate in your heart and percolate in your mind, before spilling onto the page.