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 you know), but then I discovered – or re-discovered – that you can just “make it up” and I started writing fiction, mostly drawing on my Scottish background. I’ve now gone the full circle and am back to writing nonfiction.
I sometimes hear from people who read my out-of-print time-slip
and historical novels as children and would like to share them with their
children. So I plan to bring them out as e-books. For me, re-visiting these
early books is a bit like going through a time-slip myself. They belong to
the pre-computer age, so I’m having to retype them into a digital format.
I’ve launched In the Keep of Time and In the Circle of
Time. Stay tuned for new titles as I complete them!
My eBooks are available for the Amazon Kindle and the Barns & the Noble Nook In addition they can be purchased through the Apple Store for iPad, the Sony Reader Store, Kobo, Copia, Gardners, Baker & Taylor, and eBookPie.
| Home Biography Publications Purchase Contact Webpage updated:
April 5, 2013
|
