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​When I was young, my close friend and neighbor, Karen, would visit me. After playing outside, she would often ask what I wanted to do next. "We could read," I would reply optimistically.

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I never found out if she was interested. Karen always had to go home right after my suggestion.

FUN FACTS ABOUT ME:

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• My first job was at a book store!

• I am a self-proclaimed nomad. My husband and I have our own version of the seven-year-itch. We have moved seventeen times in nine different states. (Btw, we lived in the exact downtown neighborhood of Lake Geneva where Landslide takes place.)

• I am a lefty. I don't mean just left-handed. The whole left side of my body is dominant over the right.

• I have a music room full of instruments I play: the piano, folk harp, bowed psaltery, dulcimer, and hammered dulcimer. The list goes on, including a ukelin, which is a cross between a psaltery and a zither.

• I have two adult children. My daughter may or may not be like the daughter in my story, Landslide. My son, on the other hand, is (thankfully) nothing like the son in the book.

• I have a mini Aussiedoodle named Angus. He is a handful. I'm told it is because I am grandparenting him instead of parenting him. I'm going to plead the fifth.

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