How Reading Twilight Changed My Life

​After reading the Twilight series I started writing fiction again for the first time since my early twenties. I now have over 30 publications. I was obsessed with Twilight and I can divide my life into pre-Twilight and post-Twilight. I was going through a dark time in my life with my father in the hospital at the same time that my step-father had a massive heart attack and died. I had a stressful job and young children and money challenges and Twilight was my escape. The music, the story, the romance, the teen angst, the simplicity to the writing and the storyline, the clean language. I could escape into Bella's world for a few minutes or hours and the real world could fall apart around me. THAT was what I want my readers to experience. I want my readers to escape into Ian Taylor's world and become the girlfriend of a rock star when they read my Buxton Peak/Rock Star Redemption series, and fly on a private jet to far off lands with Prince Marcos and his advisor, Alexander to meet princesses and wear fancy crowns and fancy clothes and become part of the royal family in my Sayid Family Saga series. Stories wrap themselves around us and protect us from the big, bad world if only for a few minutes or hours. And then we can come back to earth and face our day.