I first started writing when I was in school, making up various stories and never really doing a lot with them. I continued to write, albeit less often, when I left school. Then I gave it up for many years, only picking it up again as a pastime when I was working. Now I can’t imagine my life without writing.
It’s not always easy, and despite the amount that I write on a daily basis, there isn’t an endless flow of words leaving my fingers. There are times when I will stare at the computer for an hour, a day, or even a whole month with nothing to write at all. Fortunately, I have some very agreeable muses, plot bunnies, and wonderful friends letting me bounce ideas off of them.
My other loves in life are my husband, my books, and my faeries. My husband is endlessly supportive, and a wonderful artist. He is responsible for the wonderful pictures of a couple of my characters.
My books are what I turn to when I need something to do, and I have hundreds of them. My favourite author of all time has to be Richard Laymon, and I am proud to own every novel of his, and a few special editions, signed, first edition, ect. Hiding in among my collection are a few other gems, and many a vampire/supernatural book. From ‘Dracula’ and ‘Interview With The Vampire’ to ‘Guilty Pleasures’ and ‘Dead Until Dark,’ they are all on my shelves, and have all been read several times.
The other things that you will find in every room of my house are faeries. Ornaments and pictures, calendars and plaques, plates and necklaces, I have just about everything that you could think of with faeries depicted.
Of course, my other love is writing, and I spend most of my time working away at that. I write because I love the freedom of it, the ability to create anything that I want without limits or rules. There are set rules telling me that I must only have one or two characters and that those characters must be human. I can make them into anything that I want, anywhere in the world, or nowhere in it, and I love how they come to life for me and shift and change depending on what’s happening.
My first ever interview can be found over at the National Association of Writers in Education, in the Young Writers Hub.
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I first started writing when I was in school, making up various stories and never really doing a lot with them. I continued to write, albeit less often, when I left school. Then I gave it up for many years, only picking it up again as a pastime when I was working. Now I can’t imagine my life without writing.
