In trying to write my bio I asked myself over and over what people really wanted to know about me. Is it like vital statistics, birth place, parents or just why I like to write, or is it more why I chose to write a particular story? If I knew all the answers, then my mother would know more about me as well. I've always had a passion for the written word. In buying books I found that I always had to smell the book first before I bought it. I would read the excerpt, open the pages to somewhere in the middle and take a good long whiff. It's like touching something; it gives you more of a personal...