Almost every work of fiction started off with the author asking a question starting with “What if…?”.  A little over a year ago, one such question entered my mind: What if a young college student was required to spend all of her time nude?  Several questions followed. How would people around her respond, and more importantly, how would she feel?  How could a university allow such a thing, much less require it?  And how could it even be legal? It was those questions that drove the writing of my upcoming novel The “Volunteer”.

And in case you are wondering how such a question even entered my mind, I will admit that it came to me while I was posing for a college life drawing class, a job I’ve been at for over thirty years.  And yes, I was nude at the time…