McBride, Bess

A little bit about me: I made my first serious writing attempt at age fourteen when I shut myself up in my bedroom one summer while obsessively working on a time travel/pirate novel set in the beloved Caribbean of my youth, but I wasn't able to hammer it out on a manual typewriter (oh yeah, I'm that old) before it was time to go back to school. The draft of that novel has long since disappeared, but the story is still simmering within, and I have high hopes of finishing the adventure one day soon. I was born in Aruba to American parents, and I lived in Venezuela until my family returned to the...