Writing can probably be considered my original hobby. Ever since I can remember, I've been coming up with characters and stories of every description. Most of this is taken from my early fascination with things that you wouldn't think of coming from a six- or seven-year-old: A preoccupation with reading, the study of dictators and people with various other demented complexes, and watching too many documentaries on PBS. Needless to say, these efforts as an elementary-schooler turned the Dear Webmistress into an endearingly strange creature, willing to call up high-science alternate histories, paranoid Cold War drama, or sweeping tales set across vast, snowy Russian expanses. You'll have to excuse the writing style I'm using here, in all these long sentences of lists. I don't usually bring to mind William Makepeace Thackeray.

Favorite Works.
John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World. Stephen Ambrose, Band of Brothers. Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago. Michael Crichton, The Great Train Robbery. John Steinbeck, Of Mice And Men. Richard Preston, The Hot Zone. Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front. Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October. Wladislaw Szpilman, The Pianist.

No. I don't like Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' series. You can't make me.

Content coming probably over the course of summer vacation. Check back for chapters from my novels-in-progress and in-depth character bios.