Baby Steps: From casual fanfic writer to published author
I've been writing since I was 7. In that first story—my memory of it is paradoxically both sharp and dim—Amazons in sherbert-colored chitons leapt about fighting off... something? All I remember is that they had gold cord belts. My next writing memory is in the churn of my preteen years: I stood in front of the class and made up a story about a witch in a wood. I don't remember the story I told, only that I shuffled blank sheets torn from a yellow legal pad as I pretended to read. I was caught, of course, and taken to…