My latest book is a collection of essays that I edited titled, "As Good as a Feast: Essays on Enough." When I was a kid, I read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie Series so many times, I practically had it memorized. In these books, Ma Ingalls had a saying that has always stuck with me. Whenever the family was going through hard times, they would sit down to a meal of "just enough," and she would tell them, "Enough is as good as a feast." I wanted to explore this topic through the eyes of people with a variety of viewpoints. I enjoyed collecting these essays and look forward to editing and publishing my next collection.

I am a total control freak. I want to be in charge of everything. The idea of the hoops that you have to jump through to even begin to publish anything in the traditional world was almost enough to make me want to give up. I don't want to spend too much time writing query letters and waiting for agents and publishers to get back to me when I could be writing, publishing, editing other people's work, and truly "doing" my art. I'm not too concerned with getting rich doing this. I just want to do what I love, and I want to do it my way.

This is my first time using Smashwords, so we'll have to see how things work out before I can say that it has contributed to my success!

That moment when you stop thinking about what might happen "IF you finish this novel" and starting thinking what what will happen next "WHEN" you finish this novel.

I'm not sure I really have any yet, but it would mean the world to me to gain followers who will hang on my every word. I'll try not to disappoint them too much.

Right now, I am working on a three-part serial titled, "Valley of the Bees" that will be released first on ebook, and then in print as one, large omnibus edition. This futuristic dystopian rural fantasy takes place in a not-too-distant future in a world that has been ravaged by widespread honey bee colony collapse. It is the story of a sixteen-year-old girl who finds out that her uncle wants her to marry the son of a powerful man in another town in order to secure an alliance with the town. Part one is very close to completion. I have written a first draft of part two. And I am still trying to decide how to proceed with part three.

Needless to say, this project will keep me busy when it's done. However, I do have my next project in mind and can't wait to finish this one up so I can get to it!

Mark Twain is my celebrity crush.

My alarm clock. The promise of a cup of coffee. Kids that need to be awakened, fed, and sent off to school. A full-time job that needs me to show up on time and unlock the office so everyone else can get in. Basically, I get out of bed each day because i have to. But once I'm up, I try to make it worthwhile by squeezing in as much writing and reading as I can throughout the day.

My day job, parenting, reading, crocheting, hiking, cat snuggling.

Maybe I shouldn't admit this on Smashwords, but I don't really read eBooks much. I spend so much time staring at a computer screen at work and when I'm writing, when I have time to read, I like to give my eyes a break and read a good, old-fashioned print book. I often find out about books that I want to read through the blogs that I follow. I'm also part of a book club at my local library, and I hear about books through the members.

I really don't. I'm sure it was probably something I wrote for school, but nothing pops to mind. I wrote a lot of stories in elementary school as part of the gifted writing program, and I actually still have a lot of them in a box somewhere. But I don't remember which story might have been the first.