My story is simple, which is probably why I derive pleasure from inventing more interesting fictional ones. For those curious:
I was born and raised on the shores of Lake Erie, earned my B.S. in journalism from Ohio University in 2016, and worked as a reporter for local news and editor for an entertainment blog.
Through school and career changes, one thing didn’t: my passion for all things fantasy, horror & science fiction.
One of my clearest childhood memories is receiving Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I was seven and returned home from a camping trip with my father to find my mother had placed it on the pillow of my bed.
From there, the joy of reading dawned and still shines bright in me today. I went from YA series such as Artemis Fowl and A Series of Unfortunate Events to classics such as The Lord of the Rings and Jules Verne’s sci-fi tales and then Stephen King and A Song of Ice and Fire once I was teenager. Collectively, what might be called genre fiction. I had no clue. To young me, there were no such distinctions.
You develop reputations in life and you either fight them – or learn to embrace them. That I read more than most was the only thing people in grade school knew about me that I took pride in. Reading and what I was became one and the same. Then writing did too.
Long story short, here I am, editing The Darkest Fate, the first installment in the Vale of Tears series, a love letter to the epic fantasies I grew up on.
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