Q: How long have you been writing and what other careers or jobs have you had?  
A. For thirty-six years, I was a practicing physician, the last ten spent as a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Although I’d had over 100 papers published in scientific journals and either written or edited eight textbooks, I had no idea of writing outside the medical field until 1999 when my first wife died. I used journaling as a coping

Q: How long have you been writing and what other careers or jobs have you had?  
A.  I was once a fish and chips waitress (British flag apron, embarrassing pouf bonnet), a salesgirl at a trendy fashion boutique, and then spent two very interesting decades as an ER nurse. I began writing (with the goal of selling a novel) in around 2001.
Q: Do you write in only one genre and if so which one and why? If not, which ones