Brief Author Bio:

I've been writing as long as I knew how to hold a pencil, and making up stories even longer than that. I've spent the last four years of my life working in some capacity or other with kids--children's department at Barnes & Noble, now Sylvan--so I read a lot of YA lit and am often troubled by the dearth of good strong female heroines in recent kids'/teen fantasy--too often they get relegated to the role of (extremely awesome) sidekick or their whole purpose in life is to find a boyfriend.

Aside from writing and reading, I watch too much TV and love movies--basically storytelling again, in any form. I love to travel too, but I can't afford to do much of it anymore, so I have to make do with traveling in my imagination. Which I don't really mind so much, because you can't really visit Narnia or Oz or Atlantis any other way. ;-)

Favorite genres are science fiction/fantasy, but I also love a good Golden Age mystery and will occasionally even stoop (I say very tongue in cheek, no offense intended) to reading *gasp* regular fiction.