Pam Garlick admits to writing her first short story when she was 12 years old, though she won't admit how long ago that was. She remembers her struggling as a single-mom, raising two lively sons, holding down a job, and trying to find time to write. Often late at night she would be found typing on her old portable typewriter, using any paper she could get her hands on. She still has some of her first manuscripts that were typed on the backs of her sons' school papers. Then nearly 30 years ago she received a computer as a birthday gift and her life changed. In 1988 she sold her first article an...