I read recently that a person is no longer considered "old" until they reach 70. Good news for me, as I can say that I published my first novels when I was still "young." I was born in London, grew up in NYC, traveled the world, and now live on the Seacoast of NH. I've been an archaeologist, a freelance writer, an artist, and a teacher. My lifelong passion is travel: I've been to every continent, traveled mostly on the rough and cheap to over 50 countries and many remote islands. I lived for four years on a small Pacific island and there began to write travel and human-interest stories that were published in newspapers and magazines around the Pacific. While raising my two daughters in NH, I wrote freelance travel articles that were published in the Boston Globe and various travel magazines; I also wrote and self-published a travel zine in the early days of home computers and the World Wide Web. Several years ago, I began to write a sci-fi novel; the protagonist is a descendent of a minor character from HG Wells' The Time Machine. My novel, The Nomad, grew to almost 800 pages, so I turned it into a trilogy then turned it into a 2-book series which I self-published on Amazon. It launched on Dec. 6.