Samantha Wilde wrote her first novel resting in bed with a lap top and a bag of chocolates while her infant son napped. Of course she didn't start writing until he slept through the night because before that, she couldn't think, let alone write.Born in Northampton, Mass and raised in Williamstown and Nantucket, Mass, Samantha attended Concord Academy, Smith College (with a brief stint at Wellesley College), Yale Divinity School, The New Seminary, and the Kripalu School of Yoga. Before full-time motherhood, she taught full-time yoga and worked as a minister.What she loves above all else--next to chocolate--are her children. She's passionate about mothering, depsite its tedious moments, and loves to connect with other mothers, as well as non-mothers. She likes those people too!She lives with her husband, a professor of chemical engineering, and two young childen, a son and a daughter, in Western Mass, where she still uses nap times to write. She is the daughter of novelist Nancy Thayer. She blogs about her life with books and babies at wildemama.blogspot.com.