Author and Storyteller

I grew up in Lockerbie, a small town in the south of Scotland. Although I loved reading and telling stories, I never thought of being a writer. Most of the books in our bookcases were by people like Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and Charles Dickens – people who were dead. Being an author didn’t seem like a healthy occupation.

So when I went to the University of Edinburgh I studied biology and genetics. It was only after I came to live in Oregon that I took up writing. At first I wrote about insects and plants (write about what your know), but then I discovered – or re-discovered – that you can just “make it up” and I started writing fiction. I’ve gone the full circle and am back to writing nonfiction. My most recent book is Discovering Black Bears. This time I was writing a book on something I didn’t know much about, but I got an up-close learning experience at the Wildlife Research Institute in northern Minnesota where I met wild bears, face to face, in the the forest. Latest Release: Discovering Black Bears Published by Dog Eared Publications

 

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