I retired after many years of training and elearning design and development and related work in a corporate environment to become a freelance writer and author but, especially, to write something other than software training materials. I've recently published my first book, am collaborating on another and, as a POD publisher, am editing and formatting a client's manuscript. I currently live on a hill in the woods in rural central Ohio--possibly the perfect environment for a writer, since there's little to do other than working. I hope to relocate to central California, my home, within the next year and take my jobs with me this time!