I live in Texas with my husband, and two grown son's.  The youngest attends TCU and the eldest graduated from MIT. I have a twin sister whom had an incident which happened to her twenty years ago this May.  She has brain damage and takes seizure medication.  She was on a respirator for five weeks, and almost died.  I'm very proud of her!  She has a daughter who graduated from Texas A&M.  I have family in Des Moines Iowa, Glen Allen Virginia, and Omaha Nebraska.   I absolutely love writing for this MG genre.  I've written other genre like romance for women, but MG is my all time favorite.  To take a pre-teen anywhere they want to go in books is a wonderful feeling.  With ebooks they no longer have to wait for someone to drive them to the book store.  I remember as a kid I didn't read much in the summer, no way to get a book at the library.  Then during the school year there was always homework and projects.  I love reading, and wished I had read more when I was young.