My family and my newest project.

I spend most of my free time with my mother or my husband. I also create stained glass pieces.

A large number of the books I read are recommendations from those I am friends with on Goodreads and other social networks I am a part of.

I do. The piece was a love story about a young girl who moved to Hawaii and met her soul mate.

Story ideas come to me at random and at odd times. In order to keep them coming, I force my self to write at least a thousand words a day and read a chapter or two of something I've set aside or am currently reworking. This keeps my creative juices flowing. I also read or listen to books on audio a lot. Seeing how others weave their worlds help me work through scenes, chapters, or storylines that aren't coming together as well as I would like.

The first full length novel I ever read was Stephen King's The Dark Half. That novel changed my life. I was twelve years old, and I knew then that I wanted to tell stories. I wanted to create strange worlds. I wanted to explore life in as many different ways possible.

Stephen King's "The Stand" has to be my all time favorite. I love the depth of the book, the massive world King creates, the detail of the lives of his characters. Every aspect of this novel inspires me every time I read it, listen to it on audio, and even watch the movie.

"The Prisoner of Azkaban" in the Harry Potter series is my next favorite. This book stood out for me because I got to see Harry as the person he would become in this novel. I saw his world for what it was not just the magic of it, but the pain, the sorrow, the hope, the love that is in it.

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn is third in line. This short story was my first real glimpse at how cruel our world can be. Even though it is fiction it reads as true. You see how people's perceptions of the world are much different than they are today or were a hundred years before. The casual way the narrator tells the story, shows that she is sympathetic, but she also excepts the ways of her world. This a powerful story that shows us how strong we truly can be if we hold onto who we are and don't let others break us.

"Acheron" by Sherrilyn Kenyon is next in line. This novel a very powerful look at how people can overcome the horrors of their lives and be whom they want to be, not who the world has created.

I think the "Othello" is my fifth favorite piece of fiction. This play shows us our world as it and as it will always be. We are all slaves to our fears, our insecurities, our lust, and our hearts.

Whatever is available, but I prefer post apocalyptic novels, young adult and adult dystopian, and anything related to the supernatural world.

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I grew up in the south. I think living in small town, rural American has greatly effected my writing. The quietness, the security, the togetherness shows in my work because even amongst the apocalypse in "Alone," Eve's world is tame and normal. We have violence in the south, we have rapists, we have alcoholics, we have drug addicts, we have those who are destructive, but we also have a sense of community, and a knowledge that if we don't stick together through the hard times, we'll never make it out alive. I channel this mindset to show the world that it is possible to keep your humanity no matter what happens to you.

I've always been a writer. I remember writing at a very young age. When I was seven or eight, I was writing poetry, though at the time I knew very little about poetry, and giving them to my step-dad to give to radio stations so they could turn them into songs. I didn't know any better, and he didn't have the heart to burst my bubble.

I wrote what I consider my very first novel at the age of about fourteen. It was a love story of about a hundred and fifty pages, and I don't have a clue as to where it is now.

Seeing how widely successful and happy so many indie authors have been with doing this on their own, I decided I would put my feet in the water, so to speak, and try it myself.

Snashwords has give me a wider distribution base that I ever thought I would have, and it has helped me greatly in maneuvering the world of indie publishing with every one of its many guides.

Exploring different worlds, personalities, and emotions. I've lived so many lives through my characters. I also love sharing these worlds with others.

They mean the world to me. I'm amazed at how drawn my fans are to my worlds and my characters. They are all the time telling me how much they enjoyed experiencing these worlds, and they even beg me fore more. The love and support of everything I do touches me and makes me strive to be better so that I can give them everything they want.

My next novel, which will be out this summer, is a supernatural romance titled Shifter. You can read more about it my liking the novel's Facebook page. You can find the novel's page under the notes section of author page.