My second YA novel, PANDEMIC, was one I started for NaNo in 2009. I’m thinking of someday picking it up again and rewriting it, but I have a lot of other projects to work on first. She’ll stop at nothing to find him, but will she be too late? I wrote 50,000 words of that first book, but never saw it through the editing process.
INTO DARKNESS, was about a girl whose twin brother disappears into a dark cave in the mountains. The first novel I ever completed was for NaNo WriMo 2008. He continues to encourage me every day, and he’s always the first one to read everything I write. One of the great things about finding the love of your life is that you suddenly have all this support for what you want to do and be in life. I didn’t have much time or opportunity for writing, but I had big dreams of someday being able to write a novel. At the time, I was teaching music in an elementary school. We met playing Everquest II, an MMO similar to World of Warcraft. Later, my love for horror and fantasy extended into movies and video games, too.Įventually, video games led me to the greatest love of my life – my husband George. Anything that made me just a little too scared to turn off the lights and go to sleep. I loved reading books by authors like Christopher Pike, Lois Duncan, and Stephen King. Reading was another one of my favorite ways to escape into my own imagination.
(Let’s just say that when friends would come over, my idea of a good time was pulling out the Ouija Board.) Growing up in the middle of nowhere meant learning to use my imagination. We lived several miles outside of the small town of Hawkinsville, Georgia, where I went to school from Kindergarten until graduation.
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