How I got the crazy ideal to write
In 1986, when my son was four years old, I had created a flimsy sketchbook, My Dear Old Bed for his birthday. I had no idea how much it had meant to him until November 1st, 2004, when the subject of the sketchbook came up again. Come to find out, he’d kept it in his safekeeping for the last eighteen years. And so on his 23rd birthday, I made a promise to my son. And that promise was to turn that flimsy sketchbook into a real book. I had plans to create a book for my daughter too. Then I thought it would make more sense to combine both books together. I would draw on my memories from all the nighttime stories that I had told them when they were toddlers to create the book. 

As a graphic designer / illustrator, a picture book was what I had intended. It would be a true picture book with no words. But fate is a funny thing; halfway through the project I realized—I wasn’t able to finish the book without words, so I started to write, the problem was, I struggled with writing. But my desire to tell the story eventually helped me overcame my fear. I had given myself a week to complete the project. Little did I know, the journey would take me a lot longer than I had anticipated, on January 2014 Secrets of the White Lake (the first book) was finally completed. 

To see illustrations of the original picture book and to learn more about me, go to: www.windshadowchronicles.com

About Me
At age 16 I moved to England to attend the Medway College of Design and was a graphic designer in London for many years. In 1980, I left England to see the world and settled in the United States where the seeds of the Wind Shadow Chronicles flourished.