In the author's own words:

Ever since I was a young child, I've had a fascination with typewriters and typing. This picture of me gleefully typing away on one of my parents' old typewriters at two years old, is one of my favorites. Before I could read and know what I was typing, my dad would take my typed strings of letters and read back my gibberish to me with great flair and animation. I loved it and would laugh and laugh and laugh. I'm sure that's where my love affair with typing began. 

Also growing up, my best friend, her brother and I got to listen to her father tell amazingly creative and funny stories, made up just for us! Then when we'd go hiking or on long journeys, everyone would tell a group story - one person started and then everyone took turns adding to the story. We had so much fun! I'll never forget the flying bunk beds or the battling eggbeaters that would never die off.... Little did I know I was being prepared to use my imagination in the years to come.

My best friend and I made an attempt at writing a story together and I made a few attempts on my own, but they didn't get off the ground. In highschool, I enjoyed writing essays, some poems and lots of letters. My mom was great at giving me writing prompts, and my dad was an excellent editor and really helped to hone my skills. Sometime in high school I also started keeping a journal. At one point I wrote so much I would go through one journal about every three months! I still like keeping a journal.

In college I wrote a few articles and papers and continued to enjoy writing. I even toyed with the idea of changing my major to English, but settled on Social Work instead - my goal was to work with orphaned and abandoned children.

I didn't start writing my first novel until after college. I was teaching some young people how to start writing a story, and I made up an example to show them. I liked my example and decided to keep going with it. Eight years later (yes, eight!) it got published. Don't worry though, the second one will take a lot less time! (It's already about half written).

Book 2 will hopefully be out sometime 2010!

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Happy Reading!
- K.L. Glanville