In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
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The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.Leslie Banks
I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a daycare center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.
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I'd love to be able to transition what I do into screenplays that ultimately wind up on the silver screen, television series, and like film projects.
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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
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I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
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Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.
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