I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.
I'm not a daily reporter. I'm not a newspaper reporter, I'm not a political reporter.
I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at night while I was working as the receptionist for a Baptist church. That was an interesting conversation with the pastor.
