I've been writing since I knew how to hold a pencil, although I took a hiatus for work and school. I'm the sort of person who sleeps with a notebook because my characters will wake me up in the middle of the night with the perfect line—Pascal is particularly guilty of this. My favorite series is Pratchett's Discworld and I love clever, fast stories that keep the reader on his or her toes; I can only hope my own stories live up to that description.