I’m a lifelong reader who saw a meme one day and came up with a story that my friends pressured me to write. I decided to prove to them I couldn’t do it, and five months later The Rooms We Hide was finished!
When I’m not writing I’m helping run a medical practice that caters to chronically ill patients, wrangling an emotional support demon in the form of a sometimes obnoxiously talkative mini panther (read: fat black cat), and listening to my husband talk about fishing.
The heroines in my stories are always strong and sure of who they are. The men that love them will do whatever they can to protect them, but are also secure enough to stand back and let them protect themselves. Miscommunication tropes are not my jam, so while there may be one every once in a while in the things I write, it’ll never be a big part of the story and won’t last. Also, my mom REALLY wants me to write a cozy mystery and though I’ve tried to come up with something like that for her… I don’t think I’m capable of writing something without blood and spice. (Sorry Mom!)
My main motto is that a life without dichotomy isn’t a life worth living. I love death metal and symphonies, embrace everything spooky but demand to laugh, write “torture porn” and read literary classics. I collect skulls, books, flowers, fuzzy blankets, and literary pun merch. I moved to Florida five years ago, six months of which I literally lived ON the beach, and my toes have only touched the sand once since we got here.
Once. I also hate being hot. And I live in FLORIDA.
I am all about letting your freak flag fly! Whether your freak is in the form of what you read, what you wear, what (or who) you love, or anything else you could possibly think of, my life and the Mercenary Guild is a judgement free zone. Come join me and embrace the weird – I will celebrate that shit and enjoy it right along with you! Life is too short to worry about what makes you happy, and especially too short to worry about what other people think about it. If I worried about that stuff anymore I certainly wouldn’t be writing and publishing books that my family were able to read. (Yes, including my 89 year old grandfather. He said The Rooms We Hide was very good. “Too much sex for my taste, but that’s what sells.”)
He’s not wrong.