Why write romance? Because love stories have always been a major part of the books I've loved. (My son almost spent his life as Brandon because of that, but I spared him and named him Casey instead!) And then, at last, when I was 18 I found 'The Flame and the Flower'. I moved on to my mother's Phyllis Whitney, Dorothy Eden, and Mary Stewart gothics before discovering my first true romances written by Lucy Walker and set in the Australian Outback. Like so many other authors, I was a voracious reader from day one, devouring everything from Nancy Drew to My Friend Flicka, which I remember sitting hovered over the heater vent in the kitchen floor to read while my father made his coffee.
Still, it was obvious that I always knew I was going places.
Me? I didn't decide what I wanted to be when I grew up until I was thirty years old - and then sold my first book at thirty-four. I often read of or hear about authors who knew they were meant to tell stories from the time they left the crib.
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