Without fans, there is little point in writing. After all, fans are what it is all about and the audience that I am sharing the story or skill with. I really have a great day when I receive an email from a fan as well.

Mine isn't a great mystery. I sit down at the computer and start to type. I make jokes about being the hyper typer or being one with my keyboard, which almost never has any letters on it anymore. (Only new keyboards have letters, I must have some very abrasive fingertips!)

I've always loved books. My mother has told many stories about me as an infant laying on the floor "reading" the telephone book. That love of books has naturally translated into writing them as well, and that provides me an outlet to share. I write both fiction and non-fiction, with equal joy. The non-fiction titles reflect the skills of a lifetime of trying new things and experimenting, as well as the things that I am most passionate about doing. To me, it's an immense pleasure when I see someone else enjoying those creations, even when the creation that I created was the directions to duplicate it.

Many people will pop up some revered name in classical literature, but I'm going to reveal some pretty down to earth roots here. I really love Anne McCaffrey and Piers Anthony. I was over the moon when I had an opportunity to interview Piers Anthony last year too. For cooking titles, I do lean more towards the classic with Julia Child. My cooking may be much more down-to-earth than hers, but she had a frank way of speaking that I always enjoyed.

My desk is carefully constructed, disorganized chaos with stacks and piles. It's really embarrassing how messy it is, but nothing will upset me more than someone "cleaning" it for me.

I'm disabled now, but I still have my passions, although I often have to have help to enjoy them. I love camping, sewing, crafting, gardening, reading...almost anything except housework and dishes! I'm never bored unless I'm confined in a hospital bed.

This is easy--I became an indie author on a whim. I started with a novel I had written, and one night...I decided to publish it after it had been written, edited, read by beta readers, re-edited, and then sat for over a year on a hard drive. I will never forget the day it was first published either, because that was the evening my husband had a heart attack, unfortunately.

I have a Kindle Fire HD, though not the latest and greatest model. (Mine's the previous generation.) I really love it, unless I'm outside. Then, I curse it and wish I'd opted for e-ink instead.

I read a lot of non-fiction about topics I am interested in or something I am researching for one reason or another. For fiction, I enjoy a huge variety of genres, maybe because of interviewing so many authors I have been forced to not lock into a single genre for pleasure either. So, I will read young adult, sci-fi, dystopian...almost anything but romances. Most romances bore me to tears, I'm afraid. I'm a practical person who hasn't had an easy life, and certainly nothing like any romance novel I have ever read, so I really can't see them as even as possible as a giant hairy alien riding along with a human on a space ship as they save the universe from the evil war lord.

I always have multiple projects "in the works", as they say. I'll be bringing other titles to Smashwords in the coming months, but I am currently working on 2 different fiction works, as well as about to start on either a sewing or crafting title.