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Painter of Dreams FAQs

Here are the answers to some of the frequent questions I’ve received about my novel, Painter of Dreams, which is the first book in my North Star Series.

Why did you write Painter of Dreams?

I wrote it in the 1980s when I was 23, a military wife, an ambitious medical student, and mother of three.

I was going through one of the roughest times in my life. I’d lost the vision in my left eye due to a macular retinal detachment.

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Several surgeries failed to correct the condition. I was also diagnosed with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and a few other conditions that doctors didn’t understand or know how to treat—they still don’t.

As a result, I dropped out of medical school.

I felt like my life was over.

That Christmas, my mother sent me a Heather Graham romance novel. I’d never read romance and wasn’t particularly interested in doing so.

But I was bored, depressed, and felt like I had nothing better to do, so I began read