When I do a book signing or give a talk the question I’m most often asked is how did I become a writer? I tell them when I was in the sixth grade our teacher, Mrs. Whalen gave the class an assignment. We had to write a story. It could be a real story or one we made up. A few days later she called me up to her desk. I noticed she had been reading my story and she asked me if I knew what I might like to be when I grew up. I told her I would like to be a forest ranger. She said that would be a good thing to be, but had I ever thought about becoming a writer? I told her no. She looked at me and said, very seriously perhaps someday you should.
That’s when the writing seed was planted and I’ve been writing ever since.
One of the highlights of my writing career was when I was evited to give a talk and signing at one of the countries most prestigious privately funded libraries in the country, the Ernest Hemingway Library in Sun Valley, Idaho.
