I've been writing for as long as I can remember. I wrote my first "novel" in second grade, a knock off of The Secret Language. I founded the Cacoethes Scribendi Creative Writing Workshop in 1999. Literally translated, Cacoethes Scribendi means "writing disease." In 2002 my first novel, LIVING IN THE CITY, was published. An essay titled, "The Surprise Party" was published in A CUP OF COMFORT FOR FRIENDS. In addition, I've had numerous short stories published. I am currently working on a new novel and a short story collection.

My passion is ...

writing and family, not necessarily in that order.

My childhood ambition ...

was always to be a writer.

My favorite memory ...

sitting on my grandmother's porch with my cousins and painting our lips with jellybeans.

Why I write ...

because I'm a witch when I don't write. I can't NOT write.

My first job ...

serving slop in the employee cafeteria at Hersheypark.

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When someone mentions the genre, horror, it is likely that Shirley Jackson is not the first author to come to mind. In her day she was a masterful author of gothic horror stories. Though she was a prolific author right up until her death, most people only remember her best known short story, "The Lottery."

"The Lottery" was published in The New Yorker in 1948. That story generated more mail for the magazine then any other story they published. But long before she received notice for "The Lottery," Jackson had already published many stories, including a novel. Her mother Geraldine said,...

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