I started writing when I was nine years old. I would sit down with several sheets of paper and write/draw a "picture book," then tape them all together (I guess I was too young to be allowed staples) and give them a title. I even gave them a publishing company name. 

As an adult, I mostly wrote non-fiction, as I had heard "write what you know." I knew almost everything about cats, so I wrote an indoor cat care book. It was quite successful as the first book of its subject, topping the best seller list for cat books in Britain in 1999. In the meantime, a few of my articles were published, one in a world-renowned magazine (ironically, Dog Fancy).

Housecat; How to Keep Your Indoor Cat Sane & Sound came out in hardcover in 1998. The Revised Edition came out in 2005. Indoor Cats, published in 2001, won the Iams Responsible Cat Ownership Award. And there was Your Outta Control Cat.

Two years ago, I "revamped" one of my old novels and sent it out to an agent I had met at a local writer's conference. She wrote back about 2 months later saying she LOVED it, loved my writing, said, "oh my goodness, you are talented!" (her direct quote), BUT, she said the market is "over-saturated." I am still seeking an agent or publisher for that book and will self publish it if I must. 

In the meantime, I decided to tear apart another book I had written back in the '90's and create out of it diary entries from history, dug up by archaeologists. Though "diary" books have been done, the premise as well as the origin of the vampires in this book is fresh and new. I gave each character their own book and I planned that this series I would SELF publish, which would be a first for me. And so, now there is Sands of Time: Fate of the True Vampires, Book One, and this is only the beginning of the series. I am soon putting out a "Compendium" to this book that predates it, and then Book Two, which is already outlined.