Russian studies major in college. One journalism course in high school and one in college. That’s it. Sales/marketing for 15 years before starting my writing business. But before you start in with, “Well, no wonder you were successful – you came from sales,” remember, I had no writing background, no writing experience, no writing training and I was entering a high-stakes writing field. Think I could’ve used that lack of experience to justify NOT taking the plunge? Um…yeaaaah.