Doris A Fuller Natalie Fuller

Doris/Mom

. . . was born in Long Beach, California, and spent her teen years in Orange County (“the OC”), where she never told her mother a single secret because she believed her mom would freak out. She vowed that when she was a mother, she would be different. She also vowed to become a writer.

After a brief detour into teaching with her bachelor of arts degree in English, Doris became a full-time writer in her mid-twenties when she landed a job at a tiny weekly newspaper and began to learn reporting the old-fashioned way—by doing it. During a trek through a succession of ever-larger newspapers, she mastered her craft sufficiently to be hired by The Los Angeles Times, where she eventually became a financial news reporter. She left full-time journalism seven years later, when Greg was a toddler, to report part-time from a home office and to pursue other writing projects.

Over the years, Doris has written for numerous magazine and professional journals, co-authored The Woman’s Guide to a Simpler Life (Harmony, 1996), and authored additional books without credit. In 1997, she earned her master of fine arts degree in fiction from Vermont College and hopes someday to have a published novel to her name. Most recently, the non-fiction book she wrote with and for Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR, was released by G.P. Putnam & Sons. Already the inspiration for a CBS Today Show segment, Sensational Children: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) was released in hardback early in 2006 and reached the stores in a handy and economical trade paperback version shortly after New Year's 2007.

Doris continues in her newly emptied nest in Sandpoint, Idaho with her intrepid husband and web site manager Ken Sanger, and their two comic cats.

Greg

... was born in Newport Beach, California, and spent his early and mid-teens in Colorado before returning to Southern California to attend Occidental College in Los Angeles. He majored in economics and minored in psychology, graduating in 2003 after a lightning three years of study.

Like his mom and sister, Greg has always been a writer at heart. Despite flirting with the idea of careers in marketing, film, economics, journalism, diplomacy, and—currently— teaching, the only constant throughout has been his love of the written word in all its forms.

Greg spent his first year out of college working as an internet marketing analyst in surburban Los Angeles and plotting his next career as a "citizen of the world." The official launch into this new direction took place in June 2004, when he moved to Prague to became certified as a TEFL teacher (English as a foreign language). Since then, Greg has regaled family and friends with his reports from Prague, Olomouc, Budapest, Zagreb, Split, Korcula, Dubrovnik, and other locations nobody else in the family can pronounce. His first year living and working in the former Communist stronghold of Katowice, Poland, demonstrated that curses like, "If you ever teach, I hope you get a student just like you!" do come true. After a summer teaching foreign children at language camps in England, he moved on to Madrid, Spain, for a year. He currently lives and teaches in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he is working on a comedic account of his experiences as a Yankee fish in foreign waters.

Although years and many thousand miles removed from home, mom, and his twerp little sister, Greg still delights in giving Doris the occasional And then moment, and she continues to refrain from freaking out (mostly).

Natalie

. . . was born in Ventura, California, and split her teen years between the
Denver suburb of Greenwood Village, Colorado, where she attended West Middle School, and Sandpoint, Idaho, where she attended Sandpoint High.

Ever since she was able to scratch sentences onto paper, Natalie has loved to write and tell stories. Growing up, her bedroom was next to her mom’s office, and she would fall asleep every night to the sound of her mother’s fingers typing at the keyboard. She thinks that’s why she still finds writing comforting and putting her thoughts onto paper natural.

The cover of Promise You Won’t Freak Out identified Natalie’s interests when she started writing the book shortly after her sixteenth birthday. They were “volleyball, boys, writing, shopping, boys, movies, cooking, watching TV reality shows, painting, and well, boys.” Now 20 and in her third year of college, Natalie’s interests have grown up quite a bit. Activities like yoga, nutrition, and working with animals haveleapfrogged over old faves like TV reality shows and all but one special boy.

Doris likes to warn audiences that teens are a moving target who change just about one nanosecond after the desperate parent figures them out. With hundreds of miles between them and Natalie not much of a phone person, the mother-daughter team continue talking openly but are finding new ways to do it. Natalie is majoring in biology and thinking of a career in teaching or animal behaviorism. And, of course, she plans to keep writing. She also hopes to have a family, be a football mom, and move back to the small town of Sandpoint to raise kids who feel free talking openly to their mom.