My mother, a kindergarten teacher, taught me to read and write a long time before I ever went to kindergarten. I used to get into trouble at school because I could read the flash cards faster than anyone else. So they'd stick me in the corner with a book I'd bring from home.

The first whole book I read was "A Week On the Concord and Merrimac Rivers" by Henry David Thoreau. I must have been about six years old at the time.

I think I got really serious about being a writer around that time. My father was a high school English teacher and I used to correct his Composition papers for him (he hated correcting papers).

I didn't know that I was interested in or serious about screenwriting until the second time in my life that I attended a university. The first time I went to college, I dropped out after a drunk driver put me in a wheelchair. I was told I would never walk again. But the doctors were wrong.

Which proves that it's never too late to try to make a dream come true.

I discovered that I loved the craft of screenwriting. And it's only been in the last two years that I've also discovered that I love writing novels as well.

So my screenplay entered in this contest also has a novel to go along with it (if this Los Angeles girl could get a New York literary agent to take an interest, that is).

My story is called, "HER LITTLE GIRL," and I would so much appreciate any feedback on it. It is a suspense/psychological thriller with two female leads.