The Questions:  What would you say are your strengths as an author?  My strengths are imagination, curiosity and persistence. My family jokes that we’ve inherited a writing gene – my dad was a poet and my mother, a tireless correspondent. Writing has never been difficult. That’s not to say what I put down on the page is always good, but once the creative juices begin to flow, the words come quickly. I’m an inveterate eavesdropper. In the days before Covid shutdowns limited our ability to mix and mingle in public, I actually enjoyed taking public transit because it was a goldmine for characters and stories that I could use as jumping-off points in my writing. Despite the fact there might be dozens of folks…

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