Joy -- I usually reserve for real life, but I enjoy creating characters and have them come to life. I have to practice being a practical person -- so I'm writing some practical but fun books about being healthy and happy.

They mean a lot! Wish I had more. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell everybody on your social media to look for books by Rebecca J Sorens.

Soon to come -- books on how to be healthy and happy.

I want to share what I've learned about healthy living and being happy. The first of those books, inspired by my blog www.bebeautiful-behappy.com is called "Exercise for the Lazy and Intelligent Woman." I'm also working on number three of the Silverton Cozy mysteries, after Number one - "Henri Loses Her Beau" and number two - "Louisa's Luck Has Changed." In between I wrote a modern Mary Poppins story after seeing the Saving Mr. Banks movie. I want to be both Emma Thompson and PL Travers (author of Mary Poppins).

Oh gosh, I read continually and now I am enjoying the oldies. Wilkie Collins The Moonstone, 1868, was a real treat, and I want to read his other one. I started watching the BBC of it, such a bad habit! Of course I don't get the writing that way, but I do get the story. A friend in Barcelona is sending me mystery novels, but I read before sleep so they can't be violent. My all-time favorite book is "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

When I remember I have something to do and something to say, and people who want to know. Daylight helps too, and so does doing stretches before my feet hit the floor.

Now I get to take a walk on the beach. I'm so lucky to be living on the south coast of Spain.

Somebody gives me an idea usually. The opening of Henri Loses Her Beau really happened to a friend of mine. Someone she met one evening sent her a card and flowers a month later and never showed up in person. As far as I know he didn't die though, I made that part up. The next one about Louisa is inspired by a friend who has visitors stay at her house, almost a bed-and-breakfast. I saw a movie I loved about Irish gangsters (In Bruges) and I put those two ideas together (renting out the rooms to gangsters).

I have a beginning and know how it will end. Then I make a loose outline, more as I go along than at the beginning, but I'm trying to get more efficient with making the story line. The truth is, the story comes as it goes along.

Thankfully I have a graphic design degree. I enjoy doing my own covers and designing them for other writers too.

Of choice? An iPad.

I grew up in in Arkansas--southern US, in the suburbs. A mysterious old lady lived in the center of the woods. I feel like my childhood's influenced my life, and therefore my writing, greatly. But isn't that true of everyone?