My very first piece of writing that I remember, and that I also remember as being something I was proud of and wanted to share, was from about age 7. It was titled “How the Earth got its Equator” and it was about the North Pole and the South Pole were having a fight and they couldn’t settle the argument. Finally the Sun drew a line around the planet and said, “There! Now you both stay on your own side of the line.” And thus the Equator was created.
Since then, I have dabbled off and on, and always, in the back of my mind, considered myself a “writer”. In my 20s I wrote a one-act play that went on to be workshopped with a staged reading at the Muskoka Festival north of Toronto, Canada. When that play received multiple rejections from theatre companies in Toronto, I decided that maybe I wasn’t a writer after all, focused on stage managing, and did a fair bit of work as a proof-reader, copy editor and dramaturge.
Somewhere around 60, an idea came to me. Being a firm believer in “You’re never too old (or too young) to try something new”, I set to work on my first novel. A year later Circling Butterfly was born. I am very proud of my work, and have the plan for a series, each one based on a different major opera. I am currently working on Bohemians Collected – which may or may not be the finished title – and hope to have it out by Spring of 23.
In the meantime, I hope you will wander through my websites from time to time. I will keep you updated on the writing, will post backstage stories from my life in the theatre, and hopefully entertain you with some musings…