My iPad. I love it because I can still read Kindle books on it via the Kindle app and read iBooks too.

Honestly, this is still new to me and the jury is still out. My favorite one is the pre-order option. I feel it will allow me to get an idea of how many people enjoyed Face of an Angel so much that they want more.

I don't have one. It's the edge of my coffee table and it can be a cluttered hot mess!

I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania called Red Lion. I've always had a pretty lively imagination. I was one of a handful of black kids in an all white school in the 80s. I didn't have too many personal dealings with out and out racism. I was fortunate to be surrounded by kids who were open minded and 'color blind', however I didn't get to date much so that part of my life was relegated to my own imagination. I'd actually write or tell romantic stories to my best friend in which we would always be the stars or heroines and I guess it just grew from there.

I've always been a creative writer. I started out writing poetry as a pre-teen, then short stories that I would only share with my best friend. Then when I was at the Art Institute of Atlanta, my Creative Writing teacher kept me after class one day to tell me how much she enjoyed reading my essays. I still hadn't considered writing as a career as I was so focused on drawing at the time. Fast forward almost twenty years and I'm now a night nurse in the home health field. It's not unheard of to have upwards of six hours worth of down time a night, especially if the client is stable and just sleeping. So one night I thought, I've always wanted to write a novel, why not? That was three years ago.

My latest book is part of a series that revolves around an angel named Titus. The first three books are about his youngest daughters and the second three focus more on the warriors in his domain. Face of an Angel is about his half-human daughter, Cerise, and how she comes to live with him in his kingdom. A whole new world, a whole new set of rules and one hell of a learning curve.

I had no idea there was any such thing when I started out. Then an acquaintance of mine suggested I check out Smashwords to self publish. Self publish? What a concept! So down the rabbit hole I went and here I am. I love the autonomy.

Smashwords has allowed me the ability to publish on my own terms and in my own time.

When my beta readers make me feel like a crack dealer. I feed them a chapter or two at a time and they text or email me looking for the next installment. I actually had one tell me my book is like crack. Too funny and I love it.

Everything! They are what keeps me motivated to continue writing and inspire me to do what I can to improve upon it.

Well, I've already completed the first five books so now it's just a matter of revising and editing the next one, Body of a Venus, and making sure it's ready for publication by it's projected pre-order date. After the Titus series is done, I'm going back to the first series I started way back when and revising it. If you could see my laptop, you'd see I have so many projects and ideas just waiting to be breathed to life.

J K Rowling, J R Ward, Stephen King, Gena Showalter, Lara Adrian, Kylie Scott, Michael Crichton, Hugh Howey, Dahlia Rose, Rhonda Byrne, Ryan Winfield, Stacy-Deanne... I could go on and on as I'm such a bookworm. It just depends on what I'm in the mood for. I recently discovered Tracy Tappan too. I really dig seeing indie authors who are doing well. It's inspiring.