I'll admit right from the get-go that I'm my own worst editor. This is why, though I have many story ideas floating around in my head, I have so few of them actually written down. The other problem I've found that I have is that while I can very often create a great beginning and a great ending, it's all that stuff in the middle that connects the two that I have a problem with. And having a large mental red pen, systematically striking things out as I write them, doesn't help matters.

Regardless, it won't keep me from trying to get these ideas written down, fleshed out, and brought to some concise and complete finale.

Some of the types of books I like to read are science fiction, fantasy, romance and occasionally a light mystery or two. Therefore, most of the story ideas I have reflect what I like to read. I don't watch much television, but some of my favorite shows have been (and in some cases, still are) Quantum Leap, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Drop Dead Diva and anything on the Food Network. Some of my favorite books are usually series, such as The Lord of the Rings, The Belgariad and The Mallorean series by David and Leigh Eddings, and The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey.

In my personal life I'm a graphic designer working in a sign shop; I'm married with three kids and six cats--and no, I didn't personally give birth to the cats, but I helped hand-raise five of them from ten-day-old kittens, so they're still (and always will be) my babies.

I love to sew and I collect miniature fashion dolls, and I spend way too much time on Facebook, according to my family. Just about everything else is, as Anne McCaffrey would say, "subject to change."