I have been told there is no way I can be a writer because I live in a small town in North Carolina. All my life I have been told I needed to be sensible and go to school for something I could actually use to make money and get a “real” Job. Well to all of the people who urged me to give up on my dreams and only pursue a career that would leave me feeling empty, this is for you.

I may never be famous, or make any money writing the stories I love, but I will love every minute of it. Bringing imagination and love together, creating new worlds where fantasy becomes reality, if only in a book, is the greatest joy I can imagine. I will never give up and never stop writing and even if I only touch one person with my stories then all of my work will have been worth it.