I love being in nature, taking meditation and mindfulness walks. I also enjoy acting, every chance I get, and writing scripts for web series I am part of online.

Usually, a friend will recommend something to me. Nothing like word of mouth for credibility in my book. If someone I admire says it's good, I tend to be more willing to check it out.

I do not. I remember creating an MTV-type story (long before MTV) around that old song "Ain't no hain't gonna run me off" though so it started WAY back.

I almost always write in my head first, talk it out loud like I'm giving a workshop on the process, let it simmer for days, months or even years til the time is right to put it on paper. Often, the trigger will be from a question someone else has asked me, as a wellness coach. I might write one paragraph to them and that paragraph hangs around in my head until I've written much more about it.

One of the first was Swiss Family Robinson. I connected with a sense of adventure that I hadn't known was in me. Another memorable early story was David Copperfield, for entirely different reasons. David's story helped me know I was not alone in some of the things I was facing.

Ha. With terror. It is the hardest part of all for me at this point. As soon as I can afford one, I will have someone on board who lives for creating covers and I will dust my hands of that task altogether.

As mentioned for reasons mentioned, Swiss Family Robinson and David Copperfield.

Another oldie but goodie is Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, because it awakened in me what I recognized as a deep and profound connection to the mysteries of nature.

More recently, Matrix Energetics and anything by Echardt Tolle, because they feed me in rich, powerful ways that help me see my world and enjoy my world with my joy, grace, ease and awareness.

The posts of my fb friends, interesting tweets, funny stuff and information on increasing energy and good health.

I'm very new at this but, so far, Facebook and Twitter.

Very full, ha. Pile of books, digital scale, all sorts of papers, my glasses, my coffee cup.

I grew up mostly in the rural south. I'd say the flavor of small-town life does filter into most of what I write but also the perspective on big-city living from having lived my formative years out of that millieu. As a writer and an actor, the southern voice is most natural to me and like most environments there's a rich complexity within that... Redneck southern is not at all the same as Southern Belle, for example.

In my head, probably shortly after birth. On paper, in Jr. High. I remember that being the highlight of the school year, any project where I got to write a story. That, and being in Glee Club and in plays.

I have gone several rounds with poverty consciousness in my life. In the midst of yet a deeper round, a friend asked me if I could design a regimen that I would give to someone else facing the same situation. It was an amazing suggestion. In the process of going back through the times I had shifted into the vibration of abundance before, as well as going through what was different on a vibrational level with the planet now, I quickly shifted my awareness dramatically, with almost instant results in my outer reality. I wrote the book for me... and I hope it helps others as well.

I couldn't not do it.

I honestly think Smashwords is AWESOME. I don't know if I could have ever waded through all the learning curves of formatting an ebook in all the ways that Smashwords does for it's authors. I may never have published an ebook at all had it not been for the relative grace and ease that is here, in this format. It is also extremely noteworthy that my ebooks could be found via a google search the next day after publishing. That is quite amazing.

When I feel as if I've been able to bring something of value forward and when I hear back from someone that it helped them.

My ego likes fans. I am tolerant of it. I say, ok, Little Self, I see you, wanting approval. My Spirit couldn't care less who likes or doesn't like the ebooks I write. They are for who they are for and those people will know.

Not sure yet but I'm pondering either a book on using herbs safely and effectively or on positive affirmations or a rewrite of a previous spiritual writing or an ebook on creating believable characters as an actor or ....

Too many to name. Depends on my mood and why I'm reading something.

Gratitude. Before feet hit floor, I find something to be grateful for and this helps me get up, even when I may be feeling less than enthusiastic about the day before me.