I have a doctorate in nothing at all relevant to my writing. I started reading paranormal for my daughter, because she was interested in it. I am not much for the traditional HEA romance type of book, so I make my characters truly work for their happy endings. I strive to give each character depth and they are all a combination of many factors. Each one has traces of someone I have loved, someone I wish to be, someone I once knew or once was. When I first started writing, it was on Facebook in several different writing groups before starting my own. My rule for any writer more...