About the Author

I am a high school English teacher whose truest passion is writing, but I have a LOT of loves. For example, I find Ben and Jerry's NEW YORK SUPER FUDGE CHUNK sinfully delish and the Broadway musical WICKED a wicked-lovely experience. I'm officially OBSESSED with THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS.Tyson Ritter is my celebrity crush. He definitely makes me wish I were several years younger. Crazy about 30 SECONDS TO MARS, too. Jared Leto's rendition of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and Kanye West's "Stronger" are meltingly amazing. I really dig Dawe's "If I Wanted Someone." Chevelle's "Shameless Metaphors" rocks me, too. Depending on my mood, I listen to everything from The Avett Brothers to the Beastie Boys, Ben Harper to Breaking Benjamin, Ed Sheeren to Eminem...THE DEAD POETS' SOCIETY and WHAT DREAMS MAY COME - timeless tales of truth and tragedy, enlightenment and literary allusion. DPS is a beautiful script with an original angle on poetry. The imagery alone in WDMC makes it worth watching - sensational cinematography, but the exploration of something spiritual beyond the norms of what society expects is what grabs me. No way can I relate even a tenth of the books I love. "So many books, so little time." I will mention a few that move me, though. I teach young adults, I write young adult fiction, so I read young adult fiction. The narrator's voice in Jillian Dodd's THAT BOY series is tops! Jessica Sorenson's THE COINCIDENCE series recently earned me as a fan. Tracey Garvis-Graves' ON THE ISLAND brought me to tears; CHASING NIKKI by Lacey Weatherford made me cry out loud as did Molly McAdams' TAKING CHANCES. I read everything these writers publish: Tammara Webber, Abbi Glines, Rachel Caine, Colleen Hoover...I am a huge Robert Jordan fan; The WHEEL OF TIME series is a MUST for sci-fi/fantasy. For a supernatural fix, I hit Ann Rice's INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE series, Charlaine Harris's SOOKIE STACKHOUSE novels. Richelle Mead's VAMPIRE ACADEMY and BLOODLINES are at the top of my list. Lately, I find myself fond of the "bad boy" in books, and nobody does it better than Jamie McGuire's Travis Mattix in BEAUTIFUL DISASTER. Ans I SO want to know Jay Crownover's RULE. Whenever someone questions my quirks, I just remind them that "well-behaved women rarely make history" (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich).: -)