So we continue

Having found my true love of writing my future was mapped out. I wish I had the self confidence I now possess and I never had the guts to even consider making writing my career. As far as I was concerned it would always just be a hobby. One I enjoyed and would never give up. I did such a good job of hiding my hobby that even my husband never knew I was a writer and he had met me at age 17. He actually had his own writing column in a magazine. I kept a private journal and whenever I could added to my stories but I admit never completed a single one of them. Life went on I was a happy stay at home mom. I didn't need my world of fantasy anymore and with life being concentrated on my 2 sons and the social life that entailed. I pretty much stopped writing.

Life was good everyone was happy my younger son was following in my footsteps reading science fiction and some scientific fantasy. I was always looking for more books that I thought he would enjoy. It was during this search right after I had my last child who was born in 1998 that I saw the Sorcerers Stone in hard cover in the bookstore. I was so tempted to buy it but I had promised myself I would buy no book that wasn't in paperback. It was hard but I stuck to my guns and didn't buy the book and bring it home until I saw a copy in paperback 6 months later. It was still quite costly because it was a larger book not a trade paperback. Anyhow brought the book home and the instant my son got his hands on it he couldn't put the book down. This made me more eager than ever to read the book. I literally took it from his hands and started reading. I admit at first I thought it was a child's book but as I got further in to the story the magic of the story hit me and I became completely involved in the magical world of Harry Potter and Hogwarts. Nothing since the world of Merlin ever hit me that way. In a way the story of Harry Potter is like a modern-day Merlin story at least that is how my brain saw it.

The Beginning

Magic, Wizardry and Witchcraft have always fascinated me from the time I was 7 years old.  I would actually walk into my Grammar School library looking every day for a new book to read that would encompass the magical world.  There was even a time I would say books were my best friends and by the time I completed Grammar school I had read every single book in the school library that contained those subjects, Fiction, Non Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction and the world of mind powers. My greatest treasure I found at the time was the book "Half Magic" by Edward Eager which showed me a world where children just like me could do incredible things.  I went on to discover Arthurian Legend in the form of the book  "The Once and Future King"  from TS White from that moment on I was hooked to Merlin and anything having to do with him.  It became my lifes aim to read absolutely anything about him and the entire Arthurian Legend.

I had never been a typical little girl playing with dolls and house instead my imaginative play was filled with Witches, witches brews, Genies, and other magical creatures.  I would even get the other children in the neighborhood I played with to join in on my magical games.  My world was never boring whenever I felt that way I would escape into the fantasy world of either books or play.

At the age of 12 I discovered I could write down my stories and fantasy worlds.  From that time I never stopped writing.  I wrote and wrote and wrote never ever showing another human being anything since I had no confidence that anything I wrote was any good.  But I could never stop writing.  It was my secret obsession.