I've been writing for as long as I can remember. In fact, the earliest thing I recall attempting was a science fiction novel when I was about seven. I had just finished reading the Dune series (I was a pretty precocious reader), and it turned into an unabashed clone of Herbert's work. I only got a few dozen pages into it, but I can still remember the first scene. It was a fencing lesson in which the 'space prince' was being reprimanded by his wise, and suitably scarred, fencing master for not taking his lesson seriously enough.

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