Brief Author Bio:

Professoryackle - aka Sara Willow - is an amateur photographer, cat worshipper, gadget geek, globetrotter, LARPer, mother, motorbike rider, musician, pirate, published poet, Scrabble addict, wordlicker and otherwise astonishing chick who lives in Lancashire, UK with her five cats.

She writes in or on her bed, which is the ideal venue for the cats to come and hang out and give literary advice. It's also an excuse to not get out of bed for a whole month. Her cats are called Apple, Banshee, Chess, Liffey and Tangent. Banshee has a supporting rôle in this year's novel and is currently under the bed learning her lines.

The thing Sara likes best about writing novels is that you get to do anything you want, and if you believe hard enough, it's real. The thing she likes least is that she spends the next eleven months in rehab from all the coffee.

This will be Sara's fifth year doing NaNoWriMo, and her third completed novel.