The greatest joy of writing for me is that I get to tell my stories. I started working on my first story the year before I graduated from college. I self-published "Black Suede Jacket" in 2013.

I've currently been working on "My Senior Prom," my third nonfiction story off-and-on. Lately, I've been thinking to myself, "What if I add this and that?" The only way to know the truth is to write it!

Hmm . . . I think Stephen King. At the moment, I have around 6 library books in my car or room.

Either it's my job, or my to-do list that I wrote on a post-it the night before or have it in my head.

Cleaning the house, biking, reading comic books, going to the mall. I'm currently reading "More. Now. Again: A Memoir of Addiction."

Of course, I remember "Black Suede Jacket." I started having it translated 2 years ago to Spanish, Italian, French and Cantonese in order to expand the audience. Who else does that? I wonder.

Back in 2011, when I was trying to come up with the cover for "Two Drinks at a Night's Waltz," I remember I had taken a photo of the neon sign of the Balboa Cafe. Eventually, I found another picture I had taken with my digital camera, modified it, and paid someone to turn it into the eBook cover.

I prefer nonfiction.

iPhone.

2010, while taking a college class at San Francisco State University.

That's a two-parter: I had submitted "Black Suede Jacket" for publication to Tate Publishing in Mustang, Oklahoma. They would publish my work for thousands of dollars. Noticing I was being scammed, my brother suggested KDP on Amazon, which led to Draft2digtal and then Smashwords. Meanwhile, I had also been listening to Self Publishing Podcast on iTunes, my iPhone. Like I told my psychiatrist, I just want to tell my story!