My husband and I live in an off-grid, solar-powered cabin surrounded by forest and mountains in NW Montana. We produce nearly all of our food, through gardening, hunting, fishing, foraging, and the occasional domestic meat animals we raise some years. My first book was "The Long Ride Home", which I wrote on a cross-country bicycle trip in 2010. It's sort of a 'what if' about how I would have gotten home if the world had fallen apart while I was so far from home on a bicycle. Most of my books have started with real people in mind. There have only been a couple exceptions to that, where the characters and their situation at the beginning of the book came solely from my imagination. It makes me bristle when a reviewer says "Oh, there can't be anyone like that", because there really is! We all have different frames of reference to draw from but we shouldn't discount what other people know. After all, they say truth is stranger than fiction! I have a hard time keeping my books serious. I can't stop myself from having my characters make quips to each other, or other ways of lightening a scene. I guess that's my style and you might as well expect it when you read my books! I also have a hard time sitting still and being patient while I write. When I get an idea I want to type it all down as fast as I can, get it edited, and share it with everyone. I'm learning to slow down and look it over and see where I can expand on it, and where expanding would make the book boring to read. I enjoy writing and hope to keep entertaining people with my books for years to come.Thank you for your interest in my books and in me as a writer!Susan