My writing is not what you would call warm and fuzzy. I tend to explore the hardships and pain that a person can go through. My characters do not have easy lives.

I don’t actually like writing ‘dark’, I can’t even watch scary movies because I get too scared. But writing dark is the best way to show how powerful things like Hope can be. Generally, my work explores how something good can come from something really bad.

I love world building; it’s a lot of fun for me.  I could spend hours crafting the tiniest details in a world that may not even make it into the book or story.  It’s a way for me to ask ‘what if’ on a world-wide scale and then try to answer it. Even if the world I’m creating is based off of the real world, like in science fiction, you normally get to take one or two things and really explore the possibilities. And with Fantasy there is a whole lot more to explore.

Actually, my mother used to write when I was little but she stopped when I was in middle school. That said, she was very supportive of my dream to write and my entire family (extended as well) have been my biggest fans and cheerleaders.

I truly believe that inspiration is everywhere; you need only to look for it. That said I do have a specific source that I use fairly often. I used to be haunted by night terrors. Horrible dreams that would leave me shaking when I woke up. As a way to cope, I started writing them down to get them out of my head. After a while they got less horrible and in a strange way more interesting. I was able to remove myself from the dream and watch what was happening like a movie. These dreams often give me the greatest inspiration for stories of all shapes and sizes.

The author who made me curious about Science Fiction and Fantasy was Ann Maxwell in her book Timeshadow Rider, but I learnt how to build complex and beautiful worlds from Anne McCaffrey. Steven King taught me to embrace the gritty dark side of reality, and Arthur C. Clark showed me how to fall in love with a character despite their faults.