I stayed in Las Vegas for a (long) while, and now I’m back in the Seattle area. For a while I lived in Houston, Texas (mainly because my dearest writing friends are there… but also because it’s a lovely city) and briefly in Boston and Seattle. The rest, as they too often say, is history. Four years after I earned that now useless masters degree I signed with my fabulous agent. Well, writing is a little harder than it looks when you’re just reading a book, so it took me a while to get on the write–er, right track. I would read the latest romance by my favorite authors and think, “I want to do that.” Mainly because that’s when I started reading. (aka saving old buildings)Īnd when I finished that masters degree and still didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life… that’s when I started writing. Since I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with my life–theatrical or otherwise–I went on to get a masters degree (back at Columbia) in Historic Preservation. My first two years of college were spent at Columbia University in New York, but being… me, I transfered to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where I earned my degree in Theatre of all things. But once college came around, I continued the nomadic tradition. We actually stayed in one place for the duration of my high school career at Kickapoo High School (the alma mater of Brad Pitt–and, before you ask, no I didn’t know him… he’s twelve years older than me people!). Then we returned to Minneapolis for part of middle school, but moved to Springfield, Missouri halfway through. I spent the bulk of elementary school in San Diego and Sacramento, California. (No, I’m neither a military brat nor an oil brat … I’m a theatre brat.)īy the time I started kindergarten (in Montreal, Canada, of all places) we’d lived in: Colorado, Indiana and Ohio. But, you see, my parents are pretty nomadic people, so we were only there for about a month before the moving began. I was born in the outskirts of a small town called Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Oh my gods by tera lynn childs