Can you, for those who don't know
you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author?
I have been writing and telling
stories since I was very, very little. I didn't think seriously about writing
and publishing my stories until I was in college. But this was before the
Kindle and all that, so I sent out query letters to agents and publishers and
no one was interested in publishing my work. Then in 2013 a friend of mine, who
published his book independently via Kindle publishing, told me about Kindle
publishing and how easy it had been for him and after weeks and months of
talking about this I finally published Lady of the Dead.
What is something unique/quirky about you?
Something quirky about me, oh man,
one of the funnier ones is that I volunteered in different positions, at
haunted houses for about 10 or 11 years in my late teens and early 20s. I love
working at haunted houses. I was the casting director for a while and it was so
much fun. I love it so much! It was such a large part of my life for those
years. The quirky bit, the really funny part, is that one of the haunted houses
the group I worked with was, is actually where I met my husband. It took 2 or 3
years before we started dating. When we started dating we spent that whole
season dating in secret, which looking back, was pretty entertaining. I was the
casting director and he was the pirate captain for the ghostly pirate ship.
Describe yourself in 5 words or less!
Halloween loving, world creating,
kook
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
I first considered myself a
writer around the time I was working on my fifth or sixth book. My first three
books were across three different series and I had them mostly, if not all,
written by the time I got around to publishing them. My fourth book I wrote
from scratch and my fifth one I think had a few thousand words in it when I
settled down to publish it. Once I published those two books I proved to myself
that I wasn’t a one book wonder, could write across multiple genres: at that
point I had paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and wholesome romance. I
considered myself a writer because it wasn’t just books I already had finished
that I was publishing. I was writing them expressly to publish them and I
remember thinking that I wasn’t a writer when someone called me one and then
one day after or during the fifth book that mentality changed. It was a really
gradual process for me.
Do you have a favorite movie?
Oh man, I switch between the
Saint with Val Kilmer, Ghostbusters one and two, Brotherhood of the Wolf which
is a French film that takes place in 1700s rural France, and Bride and
Prejudice which is a Bollywood/British hybrid of Pride and Prejudice. Those are
my tried-and-true favorite movies and they jockey for first place depending on
what mood I’m in.
Which of your novels can you imagine made into a movie?
I think it’s a tie between the
Jas Bond series, I think Jas would make a really good TV show. As well as the
Anthony Hollownton series, a homicide detective who gets an un-Orthodox
introduction, via a murderer, into the supernatural world. I could definitely
see Tony being made into movies but I would be super excited if any of my books
got made into TV shows or movies
i always wanted to work at a haunted house, what cool stories you must have!
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