![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia or Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy.Īfter I grew up and finished university, I tried on jobs like new sets of clothes before rediscovering my love for writing. My favorite authors were Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Alexander Key, C.S. I adored a picture book called The Bear Who Couldn’t Sleep, starring a baby bear who refused to hibernate in winter. I also loved jaunts to the library, where I checked out the same Curious George books dozens of times. Growing up in a small town in Manitoba, Canada, my favorite family event was the weekly drive to the garbage dump to watch for bears. ![]() ![]() After that, I churned out a series of mysteries and adventure novels with preposterous premises and impossible plots. I illustrated the book, stapled the pages together and pasted a copyright notice inside the front cover. Then, inspired by my maternal grandmother-an English writer who lived in India-I wrote a mystery, The Green Secret, at the age of nine. When I was seven, I penned my first story about an abandoned puppy on a beach in Bengal. I was born in India, raised in Canada and California, and I now live in the Pacific Northwest, in a cottage in the woods, with my husband and six rescued cats. ![]()
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