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An attorney I am not. Though told to become one, I don't possess those qualities needed to be an effective one (I lack confrontation skills, and although I can write a great argumentative essay, I can’t argue outside a sheet of paper). Instead, I’m a professional nerd — I get paid to write, edit and read (think marketing department).
My passion for the creative arts started when I was a very little girl. The first “book” I wrote (and illustrated) was about a crime-fighting cat named Morris. I was (and am) an avid reader; one of the first “chapter” books I’d ever read was a compilation of Edgar Allan Poe stories (starting to see a theme, here?). I later graduated to the master of contemporary horror, Stephen King (in fact, my college senior thesis surrounded King’s status in the literary community). All this before the age of 10. All that reading sparked my interest in grammar, as did my brilliant and extremely (grammatically) accurate mother, a word processor at Winthrop & Weinstine (for 20+ years…I grew up coming to the office on the weekends, where I created funny PowerPoint presentations and edited documents); and my equally as brilliant father, who was a technical writer and produced wood-working books.
When I'm not reading or writing, I'm a self-taught wine connoisseur (stems from four years in the liquor store business), a mini-Dachshund aficionado, and a literary theory addict.
