I've been a writer since second grade, when my aunt gave me a study desk. While I used the desk for many things over the years (doing homework, wood-carving practice, Barbie hideaway), sitting at that desk always gave me the urge to take out a clean sheet of notebook paper and start writing. Fortunately, though the desk was lost along with the rest of my belongings in the Midwestern floods of 1993, I've retained that urge to write. I own my own business (www.adshopplus.com), writing and designing marketing materials for corporate marketing departments and small businesses. I also do some magazine freelancing, and, while I haven't done much in the way of fiction since I wrote and self-published a novel in seventh grade ("The Haunted Attic," featuring teen-age detective Carrie Moore), I would like to one day return to that form as well. Here's hoping you enjoy your visit to the "Women Who Write" homepage; you can learn more about me (and about freelance writing) at "Janet's Cottage Garden" - my personal homepage! --Janet
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