Things You Can Do With A Brick - interesting story. I'd read Marbles by Ellen Forney, and at one point she discusses tests of creativity, and her example was thinking of how many uses you could find for a brick. And there'd been a preview of a movie where police interrogators were making a woman stand on a brick. The two came together in my head one night, and the first draft of the story came out in a rush. It's stylistically unusual, but I'm pleased with it.

I'm not sure exactly when I started. Like many kids, I was making up stories from an early age. In second grade, a poem I wrote was included in our school district's magazine. After that, I grew up with the idea of writing and being a writer.

I work with talented people. For my first three stories, I hired a cover designer off the Smashwords list. I have a friend who's a photographer, Eva Auto, and she's kind enough to read my work and takes photos that can be used for covers.

I have an iPad, and it's very multi-purpose. I also have a phone that does Google Books, which I particularly like, as you can open those up in a web browser.

A lot of different things. Mainly fiction, with a lot of fantasy and sci-fi, but I'm not exclusively into any one genre. I get these enthusiasms where I suddenly read a lot of Dickens, or an entire series of murder mysteries, or every history book I can find on a certain topic.

I don't really have a desk. I write either on my sofa, or out in a coffee shop.

I have several stories lined up, and am looking at branching out into a series of connected stories.

I knew some successful indie authors, and I wanted to get my work out.

Smashwords is a very useful way of managing self-publishing. I don't know if I could manage an endless stream of accounts, and with Smashwords, I don't have to! And I appreciate the guidance they provide on making sure work looks professional. I learned a lot.

I'm always thrilled to have fans. There's nothing like the feeling, knowing someone's read my work, and found joy in it.

I like to travel, and have been to many exciting places. I draw. I read a lot. And I do scuba diving. I keep wanting to incorporate that into a story, because underwater is so different from what people expect.