I have been enamored with history since I was old enough to sit still for bedtime readings of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Now, I write stories of my own (and am much better at sitting still). I plotted my first novel, Letters from Skye, on a long drive from the Isle of Skye to Edinburgh. I enjoy getting lost in secondhand bookstores and can often be found sifting through odd bits of ephemera and calling it "research".