Q: How long have you been writing and what other careers or jobs have you had?
A. I have been writing full-time since 2015, but I started writing when I was very young. I’ve been a veterinary technician’s assistant, a medical transcriptionist, a pizza maker, a librarian’s assistant, a babysitter, a cashier, and a stable worker (mucking stalls and feeding). In recent years, we’ve been foster parents, and that was by far the hardest “job” I’ve ever had but also the

Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.
A. I love writing and reading, I’m a wife to my husband John, who’s a pastor up here in Alaska and a mom to my two very rambunctious boys. I’m somewhere between and introvert and an extrovert (I call myself a “friend”-trovert) and I love living in Alaska.

Q: When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
A. I started writing stories when I was