autiej

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Publishing
Occupation Freelance Writer & Copyeditor and Library Assistant
Location Ohio, United States
Introduction I'm a single mom, published writer, book editor, Library Assistant, dog owner, daughter, granddaughter, sister, aunt, cousin, employee, tenant, neighbor, customer, patron, Christian, American, and church member. I work, eat, sleep, breathe, do my best to take care of my daughter and myself, love the ones I love, and try to make small, positive impacts on the world and the people in it. I believe in God and take comfort in the fact that He believes in me too. I am slightly repulsed by politics, onions, snakes, movie remakes, kids staring at gadgets 24/7, false entitlement, laziness, and the color yellow. I have eclectic taste, not limited to styles, genres, or trends. I enjoy and employ sarcasm, cynicism, and the occasionally macabre. I have an odd phobia of and frequent nightmares about sharks yet some strange intrigue with watching Shark Week. I also watch too much "reality" TV, especially shows starring an angry blond Scottish chef who likes to yell at people about lackluster risotto. I'm in my forties physically but am sometimes twenty mentally. I've put myself through a lot and lost a lot, but God never lets go of me anyway, and I find that as comforting as it is humbling.
Interests tartar sauce, survivor, salad fingers, roller skating, chicago bears, coffee, the offspring, alanis morissette, nick stahl, breaking bad, geocaching, catfish, gordon ramsay, intervention, hoarders, my 600-lb. life, dogs, ohio, flea markets, festivals, retro video games
Favorite Movies Last of the Mohicans, Indiana Jones, Titanic, Star Wars, Saw, Open Water, Lord of the Rings, Silence of the Lambs, Fire in the Sky, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Favorite Music The Offspring, Alanis Morissette, Poe, Shaggy, Neil Sedaka, Sha Na Na, Newsboys, Tijuana Brass, Movie Soundtracks, My Grandma's Piano Playing, All the Old Hymns in the All-American Church Hymnal that has occupied the pew-backs of all the churches I've attended. I am NOT a fan of repetitive, chant-like praise choruses, rap and hip hop, country, or hard rock.
Favorite Books Redwall, Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Ray Bradbury, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, Edgar Allen Poe, the Bible, Writer's Market

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