Driving home from the dog park tonight, a random image from my past popped into my head. It was a scene from the fourth novel I finished sometime back in about 1992. You probably know that Shara was my first published novel, originally released in 2003, but it was the seventh novel I’d completed. I finished my drive home tonight thinking about those first six books I wrote, so I thought I’d tell you about them.

My first novel, composed on a Smith-Corona Electra XT typewriter, was The Promethe...