About me: When every other girl wanted to put on dresses and be a princess or a fairy, I was the one who donned a cape and ran around the backyard like a hooligan pretending to be Eowyn, Hermione, or Jessie the Yodelling Cowgirl. I was raised on Toy Story, and Arthur, and everything else I needed to know like baking a cake or how my digestive system worked I learned from The Magic School Bus. I spent parts of my childhood in Jurassic Park and on the island with the Swallows and Amazons, and visited Peter Pan in Neverland on weekends.
I wrote my first story when I was seven years old, about a boy called Alex who went to an island and encountered exciting dangers. I did research for the story and learned about different kinds of spiders and fruits that would be on tropical islands, to ensure for realism.
At age eleven I plotted the beginnings of a Halloween mystery inspired by the mild parties we used to have back on Seaview St every October 31st. I wrote twenty pages on Word and begged my Mom to read it immediately because I'd never written so much fiction in my life.
When I was thirteen I made of a map of a fantasy land called Caliger, and wrote a 100,000 word novel about five kids traveling around the world I had created, on a quest to save the kingdom.
Now I'm growing up, but I still spend a good portion of my time in Neverland. I'm writing a Mystery/Steampunk novel for the YA audience currently titled Eloquence, starring a socially-awkward detective and a young Queen with the big job of winning over her people. One day I hope to publish it, in an attempt to earn the title 'author' instead of 'the girl with her head in the clouds'.
About this blog: This is the place that I write about life, about literature, and about writing. It's my corner of cyberspace to share my successes and failures, to vent, to get excited, to do whatever the heck I want. It's open for anyone to see so please feel free to share the space and leave some comments. :)
About the blog theme: I made it myself. The books you see on either side of the posts are my own books from my own bookshelf. I have many more but I could only make the stack so high before it came tumbling down. The books that made it on the stack are (in order):
Peter Pan, by J.M Barrie
After the Funeral, by Agatha Christie
To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Victorian London, by Liza Picard
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
45 Master Characters, by Victoria Lynn Schmidt
As You Like It, by William Shakespeare
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, by J.K Rowling
Carry On, Jeeves, by P.G Wodehouse
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
Exposure, by Mal Peet
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K Rowling
The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
Dead Man's Folly, by Agatha Christie
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by J.K Rowling
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
Ideas for Childrens' Writers, by Pamela Cleaver
Swallows and Amazons, by Arthur Ransome
Holes, by Louis Sachar
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
Matilda, by Roald Dahl
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Graham
The Plot Thickens, by Noah Lukeman
Queen Victoria, by Lytton Strachey
A Dictionary of Idioms
The Night Watch, by Sergei Lukyanenko
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare