Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog

Q: What brought you to writing?
Reading. I was the kind of kid that reads both sides of the cereal box, then gets bored through the rest of breakfast. I loved books as far back as I can remember. One special book, which I still own, comes to mind. My folks would take us a couple of hours down the highway to spend a weekend with Grandma and her husband, who’d usually have a special table set up for the kids. They’d usually depart for the living room and the grand piano, and drink and sing show tunes while my brother and I, sometimes some local friends’ kids, would have to find things to do to occupy ourselves after it got too dark to play outside. One visit, I asked grandma if she had anything I could read, and she took me upstairs to a box of old hardcovers. She…
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