I've been an avid reader and writer my entire life. I taught myself to read when I was 5, was introduced to the library when I was 6, and never looked back. I started volunteering every day after school at the library when I was 8, staying and reading every day until the doors closed and my parents had been honking outside for several minutes. In second grade I was borrowing books from my teachers, by the time I was 12 I'd read out most of the library in my home town and my school.
I was given an academic scholarship to college based upon the premise that I would write for the paper, and so I did. I moved on later to a news organization where I built and managed a team of a dozen writers covering as many sports teams and organizations in the New England area, including the Boston Celtics, Pawtucket Red Sox, and Providence College Friars of the NCAA's Big East. I interviewed dozens of professional athletes and public figures, while managing and editing for a team producing 60 articles of new content per week.
Sadly, the organization closed down. Despite the clearance we had, it was a small operation, and when the owner got married his wife felt he should "get a real job", so he did. Meanwhile I graduated college with my accounting degree and took a 6 month position at a Fortune 500 company in the accounting department. While working there I realized one thing: that wasn't what I wanted to do. I loved writing, that was what I wanted to do.
When my position there ended, my fiance and I decided to change our lives and move to Florida. We happened to have the money and thought a new setting would shake up our lives in a positive way. Since then I've been freelancing, published in a few local publications, several websites, and taken several ghost writing projects.
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