I'm a writer who's written fiction for ten years as a serious hobby.I wrote my first story fifteen years ago in my bed before sleep. It was called "SAAREN PAINAJAINEN" and it was about an island being wiped-out by a tsunami... where sailors then set foot to look for treasure.Writing has been an escape, a burden and a feverish quest for meaning AND a pure clarity unlike anything else. But it began with an island."They Sang for That Island" is THE story that started it all; a story that I feel incredibly happy, incredibly satisfied to finally turn into a book.