Pitch Wars Mentee Bio

PICK ME! PICK ME! PICK ME!

 

My family and friends are going to think I’m crazy—which I kind of might be—but for those of you participating in #PitchWars, you’ll understand.

If you aren’t participating in Pitch Wars, check out my The Incalculable Odds of Pitch Wars post from November 25th for contest information and a link to the awesome Brenda Drake’s blog. If you want to know more about these mentee bios, go to the amazing Dannie Morin’s blog here:

http://dcmorin.blogspot.com/2013/12/pitchwars-mentee-contender-bio-blog-hop.html

And now, without further ado, the eleven reasons you #PitchWars mentors want me as your mentee:

(please note these are in no particular order)

·        I’ve been a writer since elementary school and I’ve been playing the query game for years. I WANT THIS BAD. I’d do ANYTHING to get my book published. Well, maybe not anything, but I’m willing to work as hard as it takes for as long as it takes to make this happen.

·        I LOVE CAKE. That’s right—cake. Like getting published, I’d do just about anything for cake. My husband says I make good cupcakes and I promise I’LL MAKE YOU CUPCAKES IF YOU PICK ME.

·         I'm a grammar freak. Seriously: why can’t people use I and me correctly? It’s subject vs. object of the sentence or, simply, it’s whichever one you’d use if you didn’t have all those other people hanging around the sentence.

·        I’m trained in the sciences, so when I write science fiction, I know what I’m writing. I got a 5 on my AP Bio test in high school. I majored in biology and chemistry (as well as English) in college. I worked for three years processing umbilical cord blood to preserve the stem cells, which could then be used to cure some kinds of cancer in children. I now work in the flavor industry making all the flavors that make all your food super yummy.

·        I can’t get enough of Shakespeare or Stephen King. I know—as a YA writer I should list YA authors here—but my heart’s belonged to Shakespeare and King for many more years. Some of my favorite YA books? BEFORE I FALL by Lauren Oliver; FIRE WITH FIRE by Siobhan Vivian & Jenny Han; 17 & GONE by Nova Ren Suma; STOLEN by Lucy Christopher; THE MADNESS UNDERNEATH by Maureen Johnson; DAUGHTER OF SMOKE & BONE by Laini Taylor; OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF TIME by Ally Carter; CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth Wein; THE 5TH WAVE by Rick Yancey; WHEN IT HAPPENS by Susane Colasanti; CLOCKWORK PRINCESS by Cassandra Clare (Check me out on Goodreads for more.)

·        I hated chocolate as a kid. The feeling was mutual. We have since reconciled and my favorite chocolates can be found here: http://www.debrand.com/

·        When I go shopping, I reject those plastic bags people are always trying to give me. Do I really need a bag? No. Do I really need to pollute the environment any more if I can help it? No. I try to be green. I think everyone should care about preserving our planet.

·        I’m obsessed with these TV shows: The Vampire Diaries, Firefly, Fringe, Veronica Mars, The Big Bang Theory, Elementary, The Blacklist, Dollhouse, Chuck, Alias, Friends. It doesn’t matter to me that some of these aren’t on TV anymore. I have the DVD’s—and I’ll let you borrow them to convince you just how great they are.

·        I don’t like even numbers. When I change the volume on the TV or my stereo, the number has to be odd. I eat an odd number of chocolates, cupcakes, or whatever else. And what’s even better than odd numbers? Prime numbers. I love prime numbers. How many reasons here? Eleven. How many TV shows did I list? Eleven. How many books? Eleven. Remember how I said I might be crazy?

·        I lived in Paris for four months. During that time, I visited Dublin and had my passport stolen on Grafton Street. I couldn’t return to Paris until I got an emergency passport. Need to know how to get an emergency passport? I’M YOUR GIRL.

·        I have no pets. That’s right. You’ll see no pictures of my dog or cat here because my husband is allergic to both. But I love dogs—I grew up with them and visit my nearby family, as well as their Papillon and Beagle/Italian Greyhound, whenever possible. I also helped find a stray kitten a home a couple of months ago. She was adorable and I would have kept her if I could have.