About catiejames

Location: santa maria, ca

Age:31

Website: http://callmecatie.blogspot.com/

Favorite novels: amanda pepper mysteries, anne sexton: a biography, autobiography of a fat bride: true tales of a pretend adulthood, blind submission, chocolat, clubbing, coffee & kung fu, confessions of a blabbermouth, cowboys are my weakness: stories, the cure for modern life, delicious, delta of venus, driven, the eternal kiss: 13 vampire tales of blood and desire, faking it, female chauvinist pig: women and the rise of raunch culture, the glass series, gone with the wind, the handmaid's tale, harriet the spy, the heroines, the hollows series, hotel world, i love everybody (and other atrocious lies): true tales of a loudmouth girl, the idiotgirls' action-adventure club: true tales from a magnificent and clumsy life, immortals after dark series, ironside, jane eyre, jigs & reels: stories, karma girl, just an ordinary day, kinsey milhoan mysteries, the late-bloomer's revolution: a memoir, lessons in taxidermy: a compendium of safety and danger, limbo: a memoir, little birds, lonely werewolf girl, midwives, the mammoth book of paranormal romance, the mammoth book of vampire romance, moongazer, more now again: a memoir of addiction, natural-born charmer, nickel & dimed: on (not) getting by in america, the new york four, night angel, the plain janes, the poisonwood bible, psy-changeling series, rain villiage, the secret society girl series, self-help: stories, sense and sensibility, shattered moon, the slightest hint of impropriety, the strange adventures of rangergirl, the study series, the sugar queen, the things they carried: stories, tipping the velvet, tithe, twist, unbridled power: inside the secret culture of the irs, we have always lived in the castle, the white album, wired, wuthering heights

Favorite writers: too many to name - easy to believe if you notice the preceding "favorite novels" list.

Favorite music: not large w/music playing while i write, but i do use it for scene and thematic inspirations.

Non-noveling interests: abandoned cities, abandoned habitats, abnormal human behavior, abnormal psychology, alfred hitchcock, american gothic, americana, ancient civilizations, angels, anthropology, archetypes, architecture, art, arthurian lore, astrology, avalon, baking, bars, bdsm, bitch magazine, blogs, body art, bondage, book stacks, books, bookstores, cameras, cemeteries, child abuse, civil rights, clocks, coffee, collage, communal living, cooking, corsets, daemons, demons, deviance, diners, dives, dreams, dystopia, egalitarianism, elder abuse, elder care, environmentalism, erotic romance, erotica, etymology, fae, faeries, fairies, fantasy, fashion, feminism, feminist pornography, the fifties, film, folklore, ghost hunting, ghosts, glbt, gothic horror, graphic novels, halloween, handbags, haunted houses, hauntings, health care, history, horror, human behavior, human sexuality, interior design, the internet, kitsch, leather, legends, libraries, lycanthropy, magazines, magic, mental illness, movies, museums, music, noir, paganism, paranormal, philosophy, photography, poetry, pop culture, pornography, posters, psychology, quotations, railway stations, reading, road trips, samhain, secret societies, the seventies, sex, sex workers, shamans, shapeshifters, the sixties, small towns, socialism, southern gothic, speculative fiction, stripped socks, subway stations, tarot, tattoos, television, theater, theology, travel, true crime, the twenties, underground cities, underground cultures, universal health care, urban fantasy, urban settings, urban sprawl, vampires, vintage, voodoo, warehouses, werewolves, witchcraft, witches, world mythologies, zines