MedlemMM_Justus

My one criteria for books is -- do I like these people? If I like the characters and care what happens to them, then I'm in. If I don't, then no amount of terrific world-building or plotting or anything else, including writing style, will keep me reading. But if I consider the characters friends by the time I finish the book, then the author has done his/her job to my satisfaction.

My first visit to Yellowstone National Park was at age four. I’m told it snowed on us on the Fourth of July while we were there. I spent most of my childhood summers in the back seat of a car, traveling with my parents to almost every national park west of the Mississippi and a great many places in between.

Writing has always been an integral part of my life, from childhood journals and stories on to the six manuscripts that preceded the first book in my Yellowstone trilogy, Repeating History, and its sequels True Gold, “Homesick“, and Finding Home. I have a bachelor’s degree in British and American literature and history, a master’s degree in library science, and a certificate in museum studies. I was a reference librarian, aka a professional dilettante, for sixteen years. In my non-writing life I am currently working as an independent museum curator and exhibit designer.