Amanda writes paranormal romance with a little spice. She believes hercharacters guide her stories and let them run amok busting outlines, timelines, and even causing series headaches. While writing was a passionshe came to find later in life, her love for reading has always been ahuge part of her. She spends her days teaching English Language Artsto 8th graders, and her nights and weekends chasing around her threewild children and husband, often on the slopes with a snowboard. Instolen moments in between, she sneaks in a chapter or two to satisfy theneed to tell her characters' stories. Amanda lives her life trying to soak inevery possible moment, and because of this drinks an exorbitant amountof caffeine to fuel her busy schedule. Most of all, Amanda hates talkingabout herself in the third person and is also terrible at tooting her ownhorn.