: About Me

I've grown up with a book in one hand and a cat in the other. There's a picture for every year of my life, holding (or crawling after) a book or a cat. That accounts for my independence, wild flights of fancy, and habit of disappearing when company arrives.

There are so many 'great' authors, it's difficult to pin down any one influence - Dickens, L.M. Montgomery, Tolstoy, C.S. Lewis, Solzhenitsyn, Schaeffer.....my dream is to gather up leather-bound tomes with gold-foil titles and stack them on tiered oak shelving, with a rolling library ladder, and spend my days reading, and my nights scribbling. I cried when I had to sell my books on Amazon to pay bills. And I don't cry for nothing.

Attempting to mirror Mark Twain's impressive job list, I've been anything from a cleaning lady at 14 to a security guard (relying on wits o'er brawn). My favourite role in any school play had to be Babs the 'gun moll'; though I despised my stage boyfriend in real life, I got to dress up in a skintight black dress with gold polka-dots, frizz my long hair in New York mama style, and put on so much makeup that my own sister didn't recognize me. The best part was dragging my mother down to Van Buren, the Phoenix 'red light' district, and studying the snaky movements of the world's oldest profession to portray Babs realistically.

My passion is ...

reading.

I know too much about ...

law firms.

My parents always told me ...

that God was a Creator, not a manager.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a published author and raise horses on the Isle of Skye.

My favorite memory ...

riding a Clydesdale horse on Scottish turf.

Why I write ...

to bring hope to the weary. And hopefully make money.

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

right now? Gladiator, for the 100th time.

My first job ...

delivering Pennysavers at age 8.

My best moment ...

winning the University of Hull Creative Writing award.

My inspiration ...

is the possibility of getting a stage and a microphone.

Arts & Humanities > British Literature Character analysis: Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

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Much has been said and written about Elizabeth Bennett, Jane Austen's self-proclaimed 'best character' in her masterpiece Pride and Prejudice - but for good or ill, she is the most fascinating character of Austen's star-studded lineup. It Doesn't Take Long for Lizzy Lizzy is a fast worker, fast thinker, and fast speaker - sometimes to her good or detriment. That's one of the most lovable things about her - besides the fact that she is an unashamed Daddy's girl. Lizzy is not 'fast', in the L.M.Montgomery sense, she just receives impressions and makes judgment calls that are right most of th...

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