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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet.

Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.