Though I live in the desert, I haven’t seen the sun. Or my family…  My life was put on hold—I ate and breathed edits. Became a total neurotic. Oh, don’t panic, all is well now, and I am smiling again… For all those who stopped by, wondering why there wasn’t any activity on my blog. No, aliens didn’t kidnap me— 

It’s a very intimidating experience for a first time writer to stare at a blank document and type in Chapter 1. And then find all your wonderful ideas abandoned you. Cautiously you push on, type scenes you recall, dialogues and hope the flood gates open and the ideas come poring in and you can create a brilliant novel. Nope, no

… about how it all started. And my first completed manuscript came into being. APPLES. Yes big ol’ shiny green Granny Smith’s is what put me on the writing track again. Let’s digress a bit and meander on back to when I was little—no, not to the beginning of last century—as if! Yep, I loved books as a child. My