When I first began writing novels, the most difficult emotional challenge was rejection. I had recently retired from a law teaching career, during which I published several successful casebooks and legal treatises, gaining a reputation as a very good writer. I somehow assumed that kind of success and recognition wouldContinue Reading

I started writing when I was a child to create different “adventurous, exciting worlds” for myself. However, I could never have earned enough to make a living from fiction, so for decades I found work writing for newspapers, magazines, TV, and as an attorney—in jobs which I loved, and whereContinue Reading