About 12 years ago, I answered a newspaper ad seeking “serious” novelists. I didn’t know if I qualified for “serious”. I’d written only a single screenplay but it was successful enough that the process of story creation, painting images, emotions, and characters became my overwhelming passion. It took me 2 years to write and edit the screenplay and after just five months, I was nearing completion on its novel version. After 35 years of being a polymathic artist and digital creative I had fina...