On Being a Writer...

I have always been a writer. From a young age, I was a person who liked writing essays and term papers in school. I served on high school newspapers and went on to study journalism in college, after which I worked for various newspapers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. But I was also an avid reader from a young age, especially of romantic fiction. Eventually, my love of writing led to writing in the genre in which I love to read. Furthermore, since I can trace my paternal family tree all the way back to the tenth century and the Viking Rollo, first Duke of Normandy (called Norsemandy in those days), it made sense that my first book involved Vikings.