: About Me

Heather is a writer born and raised on the Southeastern shore of Connecticut, transplanted into the Adirondack mountains of Upstate New York. Her passions and interests are almost without limit, but the greatest ones include Yoga, her Buddhist studies, reading, writing, meditation, animals, vampire literature and movies, and not letting politics or the violence and hatred in the world drive her crazy.

She loves to travel and learn new things - if she could she would be a perpetual/professional student with limitless semesters abroad. Her ultimate dream is to teach Creative Writing in an adult education or community college environment, while still nurturing her own writing. Above and beyond all her other work, she is unashamed to be a pulpy paranormal romance/dark fantasy writer, and has a number of books and novellas published.

Heather holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Women's Studies from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, and bucketloads of credits in subjects from classic literature to community counseling and philosophy. She has been writing professionally since 2004, but wrote for joy for as long as she can remember.

Her writing blog can be found at http://hafowler.livejournal.com, where there is a link to her writing website. Please feel free to drop her an email - she loves to chat!

My passion is ...

reading.

I know too much about ...

vampires literature and movies.

My parents always told me ...

"Are you sure that's what you want to do?"

My childhood ambition ...

to be a veterinarian... or possibly a pirate.

My favorite memory ...

a 1994 Grateful Dead show in Nassau, Long Island when the entire crowd danced like a single wave. Awesome.

Why I write ...

I love it. And it may be the only thing I'm really qualified to do.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading: George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire Series/Watching: True Blood/Listening to: Books, lately!

My first job ...

selling clothes.

My best moment ...

graduating from college with honors.

My inspiration ...

to make the world a better place in my own small way.

Pets & Animals > Cat Care & Health How second-hand smoke can harm cats

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Everybody knows the dangers of second-hand smoke to humans: people who live around or with smokers often end up with the same serious health issues that the actual smoker does, including heart and respiratory problems, and cancer. Extensive research on the effect of even occasional second-hand smoke exposure in humans is ongoing. On the other hand, the effects of second-hand smoke on our feline friends has not been given much attention. There have been some studies, and their frightening findings will certainly lead to more in the future. Veterinarian Carolynn MacAllister of Oklahoma ...

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