You've obviously been writing for quite sometime. I've always known I was going to be a writer. Aside from writing your novels, you also teach an online course for the UCLA Extension Program called Writing The First Novel. What happened is I fell in love with it. I think online teaching is great.
People are more apt to spill their souls because of the intimacy online affords.
Your husband, Jeff Tamarkin, is a writer as well. A writer's lifestyle can often be very trying. Jeff writes nonfiction, and since we're each other's biggest supporters, I can't imagine being competitive. It's actually great. It helps with the solitude of writing knowing I can get up, walk across the hall, and go and talk to him.