"It Happened to Us" is my first published novel. However, I've been writing since I was a teenager, starting with song lyrics - I have hundreds of songs (I did try to learn to play the guitar when I was 19 but didn't stick with it so those songs never saw the light of day). I wrote my first novel from 1985-1987, a sci-fi story influenced by DUNE. The next 3 novels were horror (I was into Stephen King at the time) and 2-3 other partial novels were started and abandoned. From 1998 - 2005 I wrote a few short stories but found my time very limited. Then from 2005 - 2011 I wrote 3 novels, the last of the 3 being "It Happened to Us." It's my favourite so far, probably because it came to me fairly easily. I do plan to edit the other 2 novels and publish them once I feel they are ready. If you like books by Lisa Genova, Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks, Richard Russo, and Richard Paul Evans then you should enjoy my novel.