I liked the idea of getting paid for doing something I loved to do. Second, I attended my first writers' conference. After listening to authors talk about their writing careers, I came home and enrolled in college at the University of Colorado. Several years passed before those first two books were published by Avon . I think ideas buzz about in the air like tiny mosquitoes.
Ideas come at all times of the day or night.
I might overhear an interesting phrase, or dream up a title, then invent a premise. An idea I had 20 years ago slowly developed as a novel. I love fantasy and science fiction, and was greatly influenced by The Chronicles of Narnia and The Prydain Chronicles . I wanted to create my own fantasy world. I grew up reading the Anne of Green Gables series, Little Women , and The Bobbsey Twins , then started reading adult novels at thirteen.