I grew up, for the most part, on an organic farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania. My parents are British, so in the summers I went to stay with my grandparents near Dublin.
There was no stereo or TV there, so my sister and cousins and I spent the summer inventing stories and plays for each other. This gave me the ability to entertain myself with my own imagination in any situation. We used to be taken to tea with great-aunts, and we were expected to sit on an uncomfortable couch and not move, or say a word. It was possible to endure it because I was watching my own little stories play out in my mind.
While I was teaching and raising my daughter, I took every free minute I had to write. The Night Watchman is the result.
I am currently working on The Lamplighter's Special, a sequel to The Night Watchman Express. I am published by Fantasy Island Publishing.