Fun Author Facts

1. I write chronologically. Never out of order.

2. I’ve gotten book ideas from dreams, lines of dialogue from TV shows, other books, movies, work.

3. I like to write in multiple points of view.

4. I write better when typing as opposed to writing long hand.

5. I write almost exclusively from my couch.

6. When I outline I use a binder with a sheet of paper for each chapter. Each page has three different colored sticky note, one for the plot of the chapter, one for specific dialogue I’d like in the chapter, and one for specific scenes I’d like in the chapter.

7. I love to drink hot chocolate while I write.

8. I have a notebook, a binder, and a word doc for almost all of my books.

9. I love to own multiple copies of my own books.

10. I always sign all of my books in purple sharpie.

11. I sell a lot of my books out of my car.

12. I used to be able to write with music in the background but now I need silence to write.

13. I don’t ever work on more than one project at a time.

14. I have several ideas for books I’m just waiting to write.

15. I have a set of four people I give all my books to, to read before I publish them.

16. I don’t like people on the cover of books.

17. I don’t let my cover designer put pink on any of my covers.

18. I honestly miss my characters once I’ve finished writing a book.

19. I no longer like to write short stories. I like to write a lot and short stories are just too short to contain all of a story I want to tell.

20. My two biggest author dreams are to become a New York Times bestseller and have at least one of my books become a movie.