Gender	Female
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Published author and writing instructor
Location	Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Introduction	SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION ALERT: Best-selling, award-winning, multi-published author with 106 books (and counting; more than 5,000,000 books in circulation; fiction and non for kids and adults; 7 book-to-movie options; 72 short stories, 2,500+ articles) in print. (More novels to be released between now and 2018.) I love interacting with readers, so I hope you'll find me at Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest!
Interests	Writing, teaching writing, speaking about writing, researching writing...you get the idea.
Favorite movies	The list is too long for this little box. Suffice it to say my tastes are eclectic.
Favorite music	Ditto the movies.
Favorite books	Ditto the movies and music.

You've been invited to a fancy ball but the only thing you have to wear is an orange wooly jumper. What shoes do you wear?

Why, the brown fuzzy ones, of course!