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   I am the middle of three children, not including three step brothers. I am not married, have no kids, and am hoping that this writing business pays off one day since I'm not qualified, motivated, or smart enough to do anything else. : /

   The first romance novel I ever read came from a used bookstore in Fort Erie, and as there isn't a Chapters, Coles, or any other place other than Wal Mart or Zellers where you could get books new in that town, I wound up losing a lot of money there. I started off reading fantasy, mostly by David and Leah Eddings, and always enjoying the bits of romance that were found in those books the most. Then I discovered Surrender My Love by Johanna Lindsay. I finished it in only two or three days, which is pretty sweet for me since at the time I was still in high school, which I hated, and working in a bingo hall.

   I grew up wanting to write stories, but never doing it because I thought it was a stupid thing for me to attempt. I remember having empty journals in my room and wanting to fill them with characters and exciting situations, doing a few pages, but then stopping and thinking something along the lines of, 'No one would read it. You wouldn't fill the entire book or finish it anyway.'

   The first computer I ever got was so old it could've been from the eighties. I think I was fifteen at the time we got it. It had a small screen and a floppy drive with thirty little disks that had to be taken in and out depending on what program I wanted to run. It wasn't a computer we expected to keep for long, or even seriously use. It was such a piece of crap that I think it was given to my mom on the assumption that she would eventually realize how useless it was and throw it out, but it made its way into my room.

   However, it did have a pretty normal looking keyboard, and since it was put in my room I was able to tinker around on it. At the time I was reading only fantasy, so my first story was a fantasy.

   I made up character sketches, the history of the country, and the history of the countries surrounding them, including who the bad guys were, their goals, where they lived, what they did, there was even a prologue. I never finished the story, and all those notes were lost, but I had a blast with it. Despite that, I never started writing again until a few years later, and even then it was fanfiction. But, even though I was writing stories with characters that weren't mine, it reminded me how much I liked it, so, at nineteen, I decided to stop messing around with other people's characters and started my second book.

   Then I posted it on the Internet, barely edited, then put it up on Lulu for people to buy. Only family and a few friends got it, for which I am extremely grateful, even though my mom hands out her copy for some of her friends to read once in a while, which is a nightmare. The almost-not-edited version is still on the Internet, and because so many people have already read it, reviewed, and even faved it, I have not taken it down, though some of my other works have come down. I have since edited and reposted it, because, even though it's a second book, it's special to me because it was the first that I finished.

   Sometimes I'm stunned that I even like writing at all. I used to hate grammar, always hated poetry (it's growing on me now) and in school we never read any of the classics. I started to read them after I got out of school, which sucks because they probably would have been easier for me to understand if there was an entire classroom of people to discuss the books with.

   I guess that's what the Internet and Coles Notes is for. I'm still trying to read through the classics, and am still writing and hoping to be published someday soon.

Books I Love:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Austen and Grahame-Smith

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the Graphic Novel

Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Surrender My Love by Johanna Lindsay (First romance novel I ever read)

Lords of the Underworld Series by Gena Showalter

Black Dagger Brotherhood Series by J. R. Ward

Wuthuring Heights by Emily Brontë

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (First classic I ever read)

Books I Am Reading:

July 18 2010: Anything by Josh Lanyon and Blood Promise By Richelle Mead