Being more creative in later life, from a painter, composer, and now a writer and poet of sorts, this last avenue surprisingly started with this publisher, being invited to extend a poem which later was my first published, Stand and deliver. This subsequently led to three more published works, while writing poems, some 1.400, all within the last six years. A love of older movie melodramas inspired not only my writing, but my art and music. My fiction ranges from the 16th century to present day, usually supporting the female gender in all settings.