I like to spend time improving on my photography and spending time with my grandchildren. I have a thirst for knowledge so I'm always reading how-to books. Occasionally, I like to binge watch a wide variety of series.

Sometimes I get an email from a book retailer and other times I will hear about it from a friend. In many instances I will just jump on twitter to read about the book buzz of the day.

My writing process consist of me coming up with the concept and putting together an outline. Then I have to visualize my characters and talk it out. Some times you have to heard it out loud before it can become real at least that's what works for me. So I will record myself speaking out scenarios. Later I would come back and transcribe what was said and beef up my outline. Then I have to think about what the cover should look like and I work on designing it. After about two weeks, I sit at my laptop, put on my headphones and listen to classical music as I type up the opening to the story. I usually type for about two to three hours a day.

My guilty pleasure is usually a how-to book on some topic that I know nothing about. I learned how to change a bathroom sink from a book and was so very proud when I was done.

The first story I every wrote was in the 9th grade where my favorite teacher Mrs. Scarborough assigned the topic "how do you see your future?" It was suppose to be double-spaced and at least three pages. I got an "A" on the paper and all of what I wrote became my reality in some shape or form as an adult.

1984 - It's the very first book that I read back in middle school where I could put myself in the place of the main character Winston Smith
One day My Soul Just Opened Up - Everyday can't be a good day and sometimes it's good to have something to remind us that any day that you can move forward is good.
The Courage to be Rich - I enjoy anything that teaches me something new.
Don't Blink & Guilty Wives - I enjoy a good crime fiction and yet I can't write one of my own.

I have always used a nook for e-reading and I have it on my ipad, phone and computer.

Social media has been a great marketing technique for me more so on Twitter than Facebook. The audience is endless on each of these mediums and all you want is for someone to tell two friend who then tell two friends and so on. I also like to share my opinion about things going on in the world so I have a blog space. It gives people a chance to get a flare for my communication style because I tend to write the way I speak like I am having a one-on-one conversation.

Currently, I don't have a desk. I sit at my dinning room table with a 32 oz. jar of water, my laptop, headphones and a writing pad with pen just in case I get off topic and need to make a note of it. The stick notes on the computer get in the way so I find having a writing pad handy is best.

I grew up in New York city in the borough of Queens. My mom did the best she could to provide for us and the neighborhood was not the best. I think that I have many story lines to share because art imitates life on so many levels.

I have been trying to write my first novel since about 2000 and I had a paragraph here and a paragraph there but never was serious about it. Then when I became a Computer Lab Instructor for a small junior college in 2013 which is something I never saw coming in my direction, I decided that writing can be an avenue of stress relief as well as a possible career. I sat in my office one day while the students were testing on the computer and I started writing from a place where I knew the story building characters and descriptions until by the end of a week I had the makings of a first chapter draft. I stuck with it until I finished my first project in early 2015.