English was always my favourite subject at school, and I remember a fortune teller coming to the door one day as a child, and telling me that one day I would write a book, but after I left school, I just drifted from one job to another, and forgot all about it. I kept a diary for a while, but that was the only form of writing that I did.
Then after my Mum died at the end of 1999 everything changed. She left me some money and since I had had so many problems at work, my partner persuaded me to take a year out. It was around this time as well that I bought my first crystal skull. After a few months though, I enrolled on a crystal therapy course (I had already qualified in massage and Reiki). Halfway through the course, we were asked to write a thesis on a crystal related subject, to present to the rest of the group, and I chose to do mine on crystal skulls. The more I began to write, the more links I began to find with all these other areas of interest, and I just basically kept on writing. When it hit 10,000 words I realised that it would be a book. The book took around 5 years to complete (I stopped writing altogether for about 2 years when my partner became ill and I went back to work), but the book was finally published in June 2006, with a second, updated edition in May 2007.
I am back at work again, full time, but still find the time to write - I have 2 blog sites, and also act as Editor for my local community newsletter. I have had various things published on others websites (I had an article on Linda Jones website earlier in the year) and spiritual magazines - Paradigm Shift, More 2 Life etc. I don't have as much time to write any more as I would like, as I have quite a stressful job, selling TV's and electrical equipment (we have been waiting for 2 months now to find out when they are closing us down), but I try and blog if nothing else, at least twice a week !