Judith B. Glad
Although I grew up in Idaho, I now live in Portland, Oregon
It's a great place to write, because the rainy season lasts
for eight months, a perfect excuse to stay indoors and tell
stories. Flowers bloom in the Gladhaus garden every month
of the year and snow usually stays on the mountains where
it belongs. I have four children, two granddaughters, one
grandson, and a husband who supposedly retired a couple of
years ago, but still goes in to work now and then.
I've led an interesting life, with jobs varying from
fry cook to Coca-Cola bottler, with assorted detours in-
between. For a while, a long time ago, I wrote Science
Fiction short stories, but the stories kept getting
rejected as too romantic. They all had happy endings.
Discouraged after a couple of hundred rejections, I swore
I'd never write fiction again. So I went back to school and
became a botanist, about the only profession in which I
could be paid to tramp around the desert and the woods,
picking flowers.
After graduate school, I became an environmental
consultant and found that I was writing or editing about
half the time: technical reports, proposals, and papers for
botanical journals. Of course, all that awoke the old
yearning to write a book.
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