Stephanie Rowe (edit name/settings)

From the author's website:

"It's all my parents' fault. Since I was about two seconds old, they were reading to me. Any book they could find. Any book I could find. And it kept going from there. I even won a blue ribbon in our library's summer reading club. Now, I look back and wonder if the thirty books a week I was reading back then was actually a sign of my limited social skills...but I digress.
The journey from reader to author was a natural path after that.

I wrote my first book when I was ten, but quickly abandoned it when someone asked to read it. Didn't realize that was part of the deal! Fortunately, in my wizened old age, I've managed to overcome that phobia. Good thing, huh?

Many years later, I started writing again when I was a frustrated lawyer at a Boston firm. Proofing bank merger documents until two in the morning while I waited for the printer to pump out legalese was not exactly fulfilling me (I know, it sounds brilliantly fun). To survive, I started writing a novel to create an alternate reality to help me through my day. I lived the dual life for a while, but when I began fantasizing about ways to rid the earth of all lawyers, myself included, I decided I'd better bail from the lawyer scene before they locked me up.

That's when I fully committed to the writing gig. It took four years and eighteen manuscripts before I sold my first book. June 30, 2002: the day my wonderful agent called me to tell me I was a published author!

Things snowballed after that in the most wonderful ways. I won the Golden Heart award in July, sold another book in August, and by October had sold a total of seven books. Talk about dreams coming true!"