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 United States when I was twelve. I couldn't fight the global travel bug, and I joined the U.S. Air Force at eighteen to "see the world." After twenty-one wonderful and fulfilling years traveling the world, I pursued my dream of finally getting a college education. With a license in mental health therapy, I worked with veterans until I retired. I write time travel romances as Bess McBride and short cozy mysteries as Minnie Crockwell. I can be contacted via email through my web sites at http://www.bessmcbride.com and http://www.minniecrockwell.com where you can also sign up for my newsletters. I look forward to hearing from you!