I initially had hoped to have my first book published "serially" on the back of cereal boxes. I never ate breakfast without reading every word on the box. I thought everyone did this. Apparently not. Some folks put the box back in the cupboard and watch TV. My Irish grandma had me reading the newspaper in bed with her before I started kindergarten. I read to forget. I read to remember. I read to relax. I read to solve problems. I read to pass time. When I'm not reading, I'm usually reading. I was born in Steinbeck's Salinas Valley, the setting for my novel, FLYING BLIND. Another novel, A PRIMROSE IN NOVEMBER, a family saga, is set in England and France. My upcoming novels, a series of startup novels, include WHEN ALICE PLAYED THE LOTTERY, SHEDDING CATS, and WILD DANCING (upmarket women's fiction,) which occur in the Silicon Valley where I used to live with my husband and Blackberry the cat. I still have the husband and the cat.