Location. Location. Location.
Travel inspires me to write. There is something about the sensation of foreign locations that goads my imagination and lets me slip away into story.
I took my first international trip at four when my family moved to Japan for a year. Since then, traveling has been a way of life. I moved on my own to London when I was 19 and then to Australia four years later. After five years in Sydney, I finally came back to California. Still, I have the travel bug bad so I make a point to get out of the country as much as time and money will afford.
My current manuscript, HIDDEN, was inspired by a single week I spent in Iceland 5 years ago. I was so enchanted with the stark wilderness and strange stories of the Hidden People that 2 years later I began writing a story about a girl who falls into another world.
Glacial river in Iceland.
The people in this photograph show you how big the falls are!
It's not all ice and volcanoes.
Moss covered lava hills.
Jokulsarlon Bay
