author : Jane LarkI began my first novel, a historical, when I was sixteen, but it never broke past the three chapters point. Life derailed me a bit when I started suffering with Ankylosing Spondylitis. I didn't complete a novel until after I was thirty, when I put it on my to do before I'm forty list. Now I write constantly, getting caught up in the dramas and traumas of my characters. It is great to be giving these characters life in others' imaginations.