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P. J. Erickson was born in Yorkshire, England. Her family moved to London when she was still very young and from there to a small village in Dorset where they lived in a thatched cottage until she and her sister were too old for the village school. Then it was on to Hampshire where they stayed until P. J. decided to see America. As she grew up, P. J. traveled on vacations with her family to France, Gibraltar, Monaco, Spain and Italy. After moving to the U.S. she lived in New York for several years before moving to Florida. Florida is home to P. J. because it is there she has spent most of her adult life, and she travels within the state as much as possible. P. J. also had the opportunity to visit some of the islands such as Jamaica, Haiti, Grand Cayman and Cozumel and she believes this traveling with the exposure it gave her to other cultures and societies helped tremendously when she started to write. P. J. says the urge to write was always there but stifled by lack of time and opportunity. It came out in odd places like writing procedures manuals and newsletters in whatever job she held at the time and eventually it spilled into a novel. Her work too, gave her plenty of material from which to draw. Since her teens P. J. has worked as a model, blackjack dealer, secretary and she spent many years in the legal profession as a paralegal. She has worked in real estate and banking and tried her hand at running her own business. She is a graduate of Writers Digest School. Advanced Novel Writing. Yokche was born of desperation.
Shortly after they were married, P. J. 's husband,
Lee (yes, that's him on the left,) aside from building motorcycles and working as
a crew chief on experimental helicopters,
P.S. This is
Jake » If you want to know why he is here, you need to read the book.
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