Thanks, Peach. That's so kind of you to say. I just have always loved to read, almost literally since about the age of three or four. I read constantly, and from a broad range of topics. So my head is like an overstuffed attic, LOL!
Well you don't write like you have a head in an overstuffed attic :-)
I love to read too; it's my favorite hobby, even before FR. Sadly, it seems a lot of today's writers have the same capacity for good writing as Hollywood has for making interesting movies. That is to say, very little.
So I've been re-reading some older books and loving them.