I grew up in New Zealand and became a journalist in 2001. I had a lot of fun doing community journalism over the next decade with a young family. I wrote children’s books and poetry in my spare time of which there wasn’t very much of as a young Mom. Our family of seven (five children) emigrated to the USA in 2012. I was still recovering from a hemorrhagic stroke I had in 2006 while pregnant with my second child. It completely disabled me for some years. It turned out the change of scene would be good for both my recovery, my writing and my creative visualization process. Not long after we moved to the U.S. I started being visited by images of characters and started developing a storyline for a fantasy book aimed at teenagers and their parents. I hope you enjoy reading Asperia, First Light as much as I did writing it.
