Hi there. I'm R.J. Palmer and I'm told that I should write a little
something about myself at which point I should probably tell you that if
you slog through this I give you kudos, you've done very well. You see,
there is nothing the least bit interesting about me and in truth
sometimes I believe that I live vicariously through characters of my own
creation in which case I should probably seek professional help
straightaway. I could bore you with dry facts recited by rote but that
would be contra-indicative of my personality type which demands that I
at least make this somewhat interesting regardless of the enormity of
the task involved. Easier said than done I can assure you. I started
writing Birthright because I was bored half insane and I've always had
an overactive imagination that will go off on the most silly little
tangents about anything at all really so it seemed only natural that
when I found myself so completely and helplessly at loose ends one
winter day that I began to write. Before then I had felt for many a year
that I had what I could only describe as a completely useless talent
for words though when I opened myself up to the story for the first time
it spawned in me an enduring love affair with the written word which
has profoundly changed my life. I can now spot a typo from across the
room and I fairly consistently offer to rewrite anything that doesn't
have the exact wording that I believe it should and I probably drive my
husband completely batty but what can I say, it's compulsive. But I
digress. I had wondered at the possibility for years that something man
made and frequently used could alter our very existence. I wondered if
it could theoretically happen and what the circumstances surrounding an
oversight of this magnitude would have to be and I became so enamored of
the idea that I eventually began to become more obsessive than
anything. When it came to the point that I could no longer put up with
myself I finally set about writing a story that embodied the more
dramatic aspects of my creative imagination gone hopelessly awry the
result of which was Birthright. I've been sitting on Birthright for
about eight years and have just discovered the courage thanks to the
undying support and strength of the love of my life to actually post my
writing though now I leave it to you, the reader, to judge the worth of
my work.
