As a teenager, I developed my peripheral vision to near perfection. I could expertly take the bus, walk, eat, type and deftly traverse crowded high school hallways without directly looking at anything. Why did I do such a thing? Because my face was always in a book. I constantly read back then. So I should have had a ready answer when I was recently asked by a publishing company representative "Whose your favorite author?" What a wonderful question! I feel that knowing what a