Rosemary: I am a former School Psychologist who now does career assessment work and retirement coaching/planning through my office in beautiful Qualicum Beach BC. I started to write when I visited Hawaii back in 1988 and I thought about the culture clash that existed between the Native Hawaiians and the Americans. Since I had Psychology training, I explored how Erik Erikson's Adolescent Identity Achievement Task (who am I and what do I want to do with my life) would apply to all the multi-cultural teenagers such as those in Hawaii. Do they, for instance, decide to identify with their American counterparts, or people from their own cultural backgrounds (in Hawaii people can often be a mixture of Hawaiian, Japanese, European, Chinese, Portugese, etc.) as a result of all the people who came to work the sugar plantations in the 1900's. The result of this musing and travels has been twelve novels about multi-cultural people growing up with their cultural backgrounds and becoming involved in issues involving injustice in their countries.