I'm pretty independent and want to get my work out there as quickly as possible. With the Internet, we don't have to rely on paper publishers judging our work and deciding if it's worthy to publish. Let the readers decide! This changes the entire face of literature and publishing.

Well, I just recently joined but love that it sends my books out to so many distributors. And it's free, how nice!

Having written.

Coffee.

I have two dogs who are like my kids. I also love to work out at the gym. And I'm an Internet junkie, surfing and reading everything I can.

Yep! In 1977 I was nine years old and wrote a book. I don't remember how long it was, maybe 150 pages, about a young woman named Donna Stone making her way in New York City. I typed it all up on my typewriter and gave it to my mom, who worked for a publishing house. They would not consider it because they had a policy against publishing employee work. They didn't believe I wrote it, they thought she did. I wish we had sent it around to other publishers. It's long gone, lost in many moves. But I may attempt it again, the same story.

Well I have journalism training and experience, so I sit down and bang things out. I don't get writer's block and don't need total quiet to concentrate. I can write in the middle of a party. So there's not really a process. Lots of coffee, maybe a good night's sleep. The house has to be clean but that's about it.

My husband is a graphic designer so he makes all my covers. Love him.

I don't have a lot of patience for fiction, I tend to skip pages looking for the action. So I read crime stories, drama, newspapers, how-to's, textbooks, and that kind of thing.

I love to read on my iPad.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember.