Gender	Female
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Features Editor at The Herald-News in Joliet, Illinois. Author of the literary/supernatural BryonySeries trilogy, as well as its spinoffs for younger readers.
Location	Illinois, United States
Introduction	Features Editor at The Herald-News in Joliet, Illinois. Author of the phantasmic BryonySeries series with titles for all ages. Co-founder and co-leader of WriteOn Joliet. Mother of six adult children, grandmother of many.
Interests	Theology, reading, writing, homeschooling, homemaking, and cooking. Yeah, I'm pretty dull, except to me).
Favorite movies	Wide and varied, no specific genre. Prefer great writing and developed characters to special effects. "Melody," "Miracle of Marcelino," "Agony & Ecstasy," "Death at a Funeral," Dan Curtis' "Turn of the Screw" and anything Monty Python and Goodies first come to mind as repeat favorites.
Favorite music	"The Best-Loved Compositions of John Simons." The rest is random and varied.
Favorite books	Pre and early 20th century vampire stories and stories with a twist, especially anything by O. Henry, "Mrs. Mike," and "Testimony of Two Men." Y/A: "A Candle in her Room," "Jane-Emily," "The Ghost Next Door."

When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?

Interesting question, considering "Bryony" is a vampire novel and it features purple roses. Fan fiction, anyone?