The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
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The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
My first book was the book that changed my life.
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.
I have always loved maps.
When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel.
My first occupation was to map the country.
For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.