Q: How long have you been writing and what other careers or jobs have you had? 
A. I’ve been writing on and off for decades, but didn’t start writing for publication until 2001. My first novel was published in December 2007. I have a computer science degree from the eighties—that’s right, useless—and worked in the software industry for about seven years. Then I spent some time in pharmaceuticals, but I’ve always loved the written word, and even while working in