Ciao readers and writers alike! I guess there is where I introduce myself, huh?

Well, on here my pen name is TrainHeartnetXIII but my real name is Ash, and for those of you who have asked or just might be wondering, I'm a girl. I've been a writer since I was a kid, and I'm presently working on three stories that I hope to someday publish. One is a fantasy/action story by the name of "The Goddess of Arnesia", the second is a thriller/mystery/adventure/horror by the name of "Hunted" (actually finished this one!) with it's sequel "Hunted II", yes, I know, it's such an original title, so original in fact that you're jealous. ; ) The third is called "Reconnaisance", but it seems to have hit a dead end, which is also a mystery/adventure. I have an idea that's wandering around my brain. It's about deja vu and we'll see where it goes, if anywhere at all.

A little about me: I was originally born in Burbank, California, and my family and I lived in Beverly Hills, Cali until I finished the 2nd grade. After that my Dad got a job offer at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, so that's where we moved to and lived for three or four years. After that he transfered to a different hospital and we moved to Northfield, Minnesota where I am still living. I went to college in Moorhead, Minnesota at Concordia College where I am majored in fashion design and minoring in graphic design and art history. I just graduated in May and am now stuck in the real world...sigh

I have five cats, Roadie, Sugar, Mika, Bobby, and Mozart/Indie, and one turtle named Missy. My parents are HUGE into rescuing animals so all of them have been adopted or rescued from some situation along with others that we're trying to adopt out (need a cat?). Something interesting about me is that I'm a vegetarian. I was raised as one because my mom is one for animal rights reasons, and it just stuck with me lol.

Beyond writing I love to draw, write songs, listen to music, shop, bike, etc. I mostly like to draw my characters to give me an idea of how I want them to look, but I also love to design clothes (mostly for my characters once again). I'm a listed artist on the site Deviant Art (www.deviantart.com) under the name of ArtemisRaine, check me out! Beyond that, I'll let you know a little bit about me and my favorite things:

Name: Ash, but the nicknames are as follows...

Train/Train Kitty, Ash, Asherbee, SugarPinkKitty, Artemis, Arty (Short for Artemis), Covey, Corrence, Co, and some I'm currently trying to erase from my memory. ; )

Age: 23...could I feel any older...?

Favorite Shows: NCIS, The Hills, America's Next Top Model, etc. etc. etc.

Favorite cartoons: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends & Batman Beyond

Favorite Animes: Black Cat, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, Jigoku Shoujo, Ah! My Goddess, Get Backers, .hack//SIGN, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Love Hina, Noir, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, Pokemon (Yeah, yeah, I know...), Read or Die, & some others I forgot

Favorite Movies: Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix, Transformers, Saw, The Devil Wears Prada, Elizabethtown, The Holiday, Just Friends, V for Vendetta, The Matrix, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, About a Boy, Moulin Rouge!, The Island, Memoirs of a Geisha, etc.

Favorite Games: Kingdom Hearts I & II, Final Fantasy's X, X-2, & XII, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, Star Ocean 3: Till the End of Time, Devil May Cry 1-3, Silent Hill 3 & 4, God of War, Mario Cart Double Dash, Kirby, Harvest Moon, The Sims 2, Pokemon Platinum, Gears of War, etc.

Favorite Books: Harry Potter Series (4 is the best!), Angels & Demons, The DaVinci Code, The Inferno, Artemis Fowl series, The Song of the Lioness Series, The Devil Wears Prada, Across the Nightingale Floor, Wicked, Inkworld Series, The Odyssey, House, The Things They Carried, Catcher in the Rye, The Birth of Venus, The Lovely Bones, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Bone Dolls Twin, etc.

Favorite Quotes: "You showed me how to see, that nothing is whole and nothing is broken." - Utada Hikaru (Sanctuary for Kingdom Hearts), "They say the captain goes down with his ship, so when the world ends will God go down with it?" - Fall Out Boy

Favorite Songs: "It's My Life" - Bon Jovi, "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?" & "Dance Dance" & "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?" by Fall Out Boy, "Sanctuary" - Utada Hikaru, "Just a Little Girl" by David Hodges, "Saturday Night" & "Want Ya" - Darin Zanyar, "Taking Over Me", "Anything for You", "Tourniquet", & "Lacrymosa" by Evanescence, "Girls on Top" & "Your Color" - BoA, "Daia no Hana" - Yoriko (Black Cat), "Be Good to Me" - Ashley Tisdale, "Suddenly I See" - KT Tunstall, etc.

I'm a BIG fan of music, and I tend to find new songs just about every day. I'm definitely into a bit of everything, especially alternative (Within Temptation, Evansence, etc.), and I LOVE music from other countries, namely Japan, Korea, Italy, and France. It's all so different and amazing to me! I definitely recommend trying out music outside your own country if you haven't!

Favorite Singers and Bands: In no particular order...Fall Out Boy (FAV!!), Evanescence, BoA, Within Temptation, Darin Zanyar, Ryan Cabrera, Lena Park, Sweetbox, Frou Frou/Imogen Heap, Hyori, Trapt, Utada Hikaru, Se7en, Shinhwa, Jack's Mannequin, Ayumi Hamasaki, F.I.R, Josh Groban, Britney Spears, Bi/Rain, Celtic Woman, Fort Minor, Linkin Park, Maaya Sakamoto, FictionJuntion (aka AWESOME composer Yuki Kajiura), Kyo, Breaking Benjamin, The Pussycat Dolls, My Chemical Romance, Koda Kumi, The Click Five, Flor-Rida, Vanessa Mae, Nightwish, BBMak, The All-American Rejects, Avril Lavigne, Darren Hayes, Savage Garden, Flogging Molly, PANIC! At the Disco, Matchbox Twenty, Origa, Angela Aki, & 12 Girls Band (As you can tell I'm OBSESSED with music!)

The Major Fanfic I'm working on: Lemme think...both are currently Black Cat fics, an awesome anime you've got to watch! Both are up and running and still in the works. I'm also considering starting a Twilight or Harry Potter fanfic. Hopefully I'll be able to post both "Hunted" & "The Goddess of Arnesia" online someday so you guys can get a taste of it to let me know if it's worth pursuing their publication, but I'll let y'all know if that ever happens!

Thank you so much for reading my work! I'm above 100,000 hits on one of my stories, so thank you SO much for the awesome suppoert! I luv you all! Mwah!!

Ciao!

-Ash/Train