Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.

A. I’m 64, happily married, and live in a small town in Ohio. I worked as a school speech pathologist for 34 years. Most of those years were in a large urban school district where I mostly worked with deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

Q: When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
A. I didn’t start writing until I was 40, but I always loved