about me

I wrote my first "book" in sixth grade at a public school, where I'd been very happy. For seventh grade, though, my parents decided I needed to attend a private school. I hated it. I had nothing in common with the other girls in my class -- many of whom had known each other their entire life. So, in my misery, I sat alone at lunch watching the younger kids play and writing my stories in my head and building my future as a writer.

Those stories I wrote in seventh grade never found a home on paper, but what I learned that year was how to observe, how to imagine, and how to persevere. By February, I was a public school student again, but my urge to create has never changed.

When I grew up, I decided it was time to put down my stories. I muddled through a variety of genres, from journalistic to picture book to young adult to screenplay until finally realizing I am still that unhappy little girl trying to fit in a world where she can't find a friend. The happiest year of my youth was my Junior year in High School. So that's what I write now.

favourite books

Immortal Beloved, Hunger Games Trilogy, Twilight Trilogy, Breathing Underwater, Beastly (the novel), The Red Umbrella, Players, Cubanita, Shrinking Violet

my websites

http://standforsomethingnow.blogspot.com/