In 1997, when DIANN HUNT and her husband, Jim, started on their three-mile trek through Amish country, she had no idea she was taking her first steps toward a new career. Inspired by their walk, she wrote an article, which was published a year later. In 1999, she took a fiction writing course taught by Dr. Dennis Hensley, and in 2001, her first novella hit the shelves, with other novellas and novels following thereafter. Quitting her job as a court reporter in the fall of 2003, Diann now devotes her time to writing. Well, okay, writing and spoiling her granddaughters. She's been happily married forever, and she and her husband have a daughter and son, who now have families of their own. Diann loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and, well, chocolate.