Megan Creel is a life long writer of fiction, and began starting her first novel in middle school, sharing her notebook of stories with her girl friends, often during class. She is immensely grateful for the love and tolerance shown her by her seventh grade English teacher, Mr. Robert Dahl, who, after confiscating said notebook during a class lecture he deemed was being disturbed by the three giggling girls, did not destroy the work or demean the author in any way. Instead, he returned the notebook, enclosing a thoughtful letter proclaiming Megan a "diamond in the rough," and challenging her t...