Gender	Female
Occupation	writer
Location	Colorado, United States
Introduction	I'm weird. I write a tremendous lot. I like cookies, justice, and rubber duckies.
Interests	everything.
Favorite books	why do you toture me so?! try this instead: Lloyd Alexander, Lewis Carrol, Jean Ferris, Shannon Hale, E.L. Konigsburg, Gail Carson Levine, Robin McKinley, Gerald Morris, Tamora Pierce, J.K. Rowling, Vivian Vande Velde, Scott Westerfield, Patricia C. Wrede, and Jane Yolen.

Why does the color blue mean raspberry-flavored?

Have you ever eaten straight blue? it tastes remarkably similar to raspberry. So why bother trying to get the flavor perfect, when one could just make real raspberries blue? It's much simpler to create color for a flavor than the other way around.