<p>I have had a lifelong passion for all things 'Book' related. I remember going to my local library where I grew up in Liverpool and handing my card over to the librarian as I took out various storybooks. They took me to far away places and told me about the lives of people that I would never know. At Christmas and birthdays I would collect any money I was given and head off into town to buy my own books. That love of escapism I found in those stories has never left me.</p><p>And now that I am still alive I have turned my attention to writing the kind of stories that I want to read. Tahira The Elemental is the first of these stories.</p>